Staff Software Engineer, Ramp

• 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
• 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
• Minimum 4 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred
• Experience implementing modern observability solutions using industry tools (like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) and/or architecting custom in-house observability systems spanning metrics, logs, and distributed tracing with demonstrated success in complex, high-throughput environments
• 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 programing language
• Deep experience in one of the following:
• Real-time queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal)
• Container Orchestration/Web Server Administration (ECS/Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask)

• 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
• As an early employee, 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
• 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

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• One Medical Membership
• 401(k) including an employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• WFH stipend
• Relocation support to move to NYC
• Pet Insurance

Total funding: $1.1bn

Ramp provides companies with a dual offering of corporate cards and a spending management dashboard. The dashboard allows companies to oversee their costs, automate manual accounting practices, reimburse out-of-pocket spending, and earn cashback on financial outlays.