Staff Software Engineer, Observability
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Staff Software Engineer, Observability at Gusto in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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- Shape the engineering organization standards around observability.
- Own and evolve the observability platform, including distributed logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure.
- Build AI-native capabilities to automatically detect anomalies, diagnose failures, and accelerate root cause analysis.
- Create powerful developer experiences through dashboards, notebooks, and interactive debugging tools.
- Drive reliability automation with intelligent alerting, diagnostics, and incident response systems.
- Partner across engineering teams to embed observability and reliability best practices.
What a strong candidate brings
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- Strategic systems thinker who identifies high impact opportunities and builds scalable solutions.
- Experience operating large scale distributed systems in production, especially logging platforms or time series databases.
- Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes and AWS.
- Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems end to end.
- Product mindset or full stack instincts and excited to build real tools engineers love to use.
- Strong communicator who can align technical and non technical stakeholders.
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