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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity - Rails

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about 17 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Base Salary

$190k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Seek out and solve inefficiencies in tooling and frameworks to improve developer productivity.
  • Advance Rails and Ruby upgrades across core applications with automation and AI-assisted tooling.
  • Build and maintain reusable libraries and patterns for best practices.
  • Steward and improve shared CI tooling and developer-facing guardrails.
  • Collaborate with product engineering teams to understand pain points and ship solutions.
  • Contribute to observable standards and scorecards for service health and maturity.
  • Leverage AI tools to augment developer productivity.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience with strong architecture skills.
  • Deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails or equivalent backend experience with a willingness to learn Rails.
  • Experience building developer tooling or platform infrastructure for multiple engineers.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with colleagues as internal customers.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and enthusiasm for applying AI.
  • Experience with type systems, CI/CD pipelines, code generation, or framework upgrades.
  • A tendency to create observable, repeatable, and automated processes.

Tech Stack

GoPythonRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

Categories

AI & MLBackendDevOps