Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Ramp

San Francisco, New York (CA, NY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

Fertility HRA up to $10,000

Parental Leave

Unlimited AI token usage

Pet insurance

Health and Wellness stipend

In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks

Budget for intra-office travel

Relocation support to NYC or SF

Job summary

A progressive financial technology firm in San Francisco seeks an experienced engineering professional to influence and implement the next generation of their database and cloud infrastructure. Candidates should have 2+ years of experience in creating high-quality architectures, ideally in a production environment with AWS or similar. This role offers extensive benefits including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, and relocation support. Join a team passionate about building impactful technology solutions.

Qualifications

2+ years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems.
Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Ability to quickly devise impactful solutions to customer requirements.
Expertise in deploying Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language.
Deep experience in either SQL database administration or real-time queue systems.

Responsibilities

Influence and implement next generation of Amp's database and real-time queue infrastructure.
Work across engineering to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies.
Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify architecture.
Find solutions for scaling, performance, and low latency problems.
Participate in on-call rotation for critical production events.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code

Object-oriented programming

SQL database administration

Real-time queue systems

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ECS

Job description

About Ramp

At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 50,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint, and ICONIQ, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world! They are highly cross‑functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling it in production. We value people who take pride in their work, and show an aptitude for learning quickly whether they’re familiar with our stack or not. You’ll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, long‑term impact on technical design and engineering culture.

Our ideal candidate possesses a deep knowledge of AWS, or an equivalent cloud provider and will assist in constructing the upcoming versions of our database infrastructure. They have been accountable for deploying production databases and have experience handling scale, concurrency, fault tolerance, and idempotency. They exhibit a strong sense of ownership, promptly addressing high‑urgency issues, and they also mentor and foster the growth of every other team member.

What You’ll Do

Influence and implement the next generation of Ramp's database, real‑time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure
Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud‑native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low latency problems
Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events

What You Need

2+ of experience shipping high‑quality architectures for critical systems preferred
Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high‑impact ways to quickly solve their problems
Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure‑as‑Code i.e. Terraform
Proficiency in an object‑oriented programming language
Deep experience in one of the following:
- Large‑scale SQL database administration (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Real‑time queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal)
- Container Orchestration/Web Server Administration (ECS/Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask)

Benefits (for U.S.-based full‑time employees)

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- Partially covered for your dependents
- One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
Parental Leave
Unlimited AI token usage
Pet insurance
Centralized home‑office equipment ordering for all employees
Health and Wellness stipend
In‑office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
Budget for intra‑office travel
Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)