Gusto
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Pricing and Packaging
$189K–$278K
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years as a tech lead or staff engineer setting technical direction.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical direction and delivery of Gusto’s Commerce Platform for managing products, pricing, subscriptions, promotions, and entitlements.
What you'll do
- Design and lead reliable, performant Commerce Platform systems, defining and meeting SLOs.
- Drive cross-functional technical roadmaps and complex projects from scoping through launch and iteration.
- Mentor engineers and improve platform observability, incident response, and AI-augmented development practices.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a tech lead or staff engineer role setting technical direction.
- Mastery of at least one programming language.
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale backend platform systems; strong command of distributed systems, API design, and service reliability, including production SLOs.
- Demonstrated effective use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering; bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Pay
USD $189,000/yr to $236,000/yr base salary (Denver & most remote locations); USD $223,000/yr to $278,000/yr base salary (San Francisco, Seattle & New York).
Tools
Ruby, Java, Python, Go, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
AI focus
Use AI tools such as code assistants, automated testing, and data-driven diagnostics to accelerate engineering and establish team-wide AI-augmented development practices.
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