Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Company: Gusto

About the Company: Gusto is a cloud-based HR platform serving over 300,000 small and medium businesses with payroll, benefits, time tracking, and compliance tools. One of the most trusted SMB HR platforms in the US, with 2,600+ employees and a remote-first culture. Public company.

Job Category: Software Engineering / Data Platform / Backend

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Remote — USA (LA Metro Area preferred but nationwide considered)

Salary: $163,000–$204,000 base

Application Link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/gusto (search "Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform")

Job Description: You'll design, build, and evolve Gusto's core data platform infrastructure — the systems that power analytics, reporting, and data products across the business and for 300,000+ small business customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable data platform services and infrastructure supporting business and customer analytics
• Build and maintain data pipelines, ingestion systems, and transformation workflows
• Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and product engineering teams on data infrastructure needs
• Drive technical decisions and architecture choices for data platform services
• Maintain reliability, performance, and observability across all data platform components
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering culture within the platform organization

Requirements:

• 7+ years software engineering experience with strong data infrastructure background
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines and analytics infrastructure
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Go; strong SQL fundamentals
• Experience with modern data stack components (Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, or similar)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or GCP); experience with data warehouse technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional work

Benefits: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, 401K with match, equity, parental leave, flexible PTO, home office stipend, professional development support.