Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Pricing and Packaging Engineering
$163K–$247K
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 8+ years of software development experience.
About the job
Leads architecture and delivery of Gusto’s Commerce Platform for managing products, pricing, subscriptions, promotions, and entitlements.
What you'll do
- Design and lead development of reliable Commerce Platform services, including product catalog, promotions, subscriptions, and entitlements.
- Drive cross-functional technical roadmaps and end-to-end delivery of complex projects.
- Mentor engineers and establish team practices for AI-augmented development.
What they ask for
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale backend platform systems.
- Experience owning multi-quarter projects with measurable customer impact at scale.
- Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and service reliability, including defining and meeting production SLOs.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience in commerce, billing, subscription management, pricing, and packaging domains.
- Experience with large-scale refactors and performance and reliability issues.
Pay
$163,000–$204,000 USD base salary; $197,000–$247,000 USD base salary
AI focus
Use AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity and establish team-wide best practices for AI-augmented development.
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