Staff Software Engineer – Platform

EasyLlama - HR & Compliance Training For Modern Teams

Founding Platform Engineer responsible for building technical foundations for EasyLlama's AI-powered products. Collaborating with leadership to shape the platform engineering function.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $163,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting and operating scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails and Kubernetes, while leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams. Proficient in building CI/CD pipelines, designing APIs, and ensuring high availability and reliability of production infrastructure.

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Ruby On RailsKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesDistributed Systems DesignTechnical Leadership

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Hard Skills

Ruby On RailsReactKubernetesDockerAWSSQLAPI DesignCloud-Native InfrastructureDatabase DesignService-Oriented Architecture

Soft Skills

CommunicationDebuggingMentoringProblem-SolvingOwnership

Tools & Technologies

StripeHRIS PlatformsOAuthSAMLSCIMWebhooksLoggingMetricsTracingPerformance Monitoring

Industry Keywords

SaaS ApplicationsProduction InfrastructureHigh AvailabilityReliabilityDeveloper Productivity

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerKubernetesReactRubyRuby on RailsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical roadmap for Platform Engineering.
Architect, build, and operate highly scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
Design and operate our Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud architecture, and deployment pipelines.
Improve developer productivity through CI/CD, automation, internal tooling, and engineering best practices.
Build and evolve the platform powering our AI products, including LLM orchestration, agent infrastructure, prompt management, evaluation pipelines, model routing, and AI observability.
Own our billing platform, including subscriptions, licensing, payments, usage metering, invoicing, and Stripe integrations.
Design and maintain secure, scalable integrations with HRIS platforms, identity providers, and enterprise customers using REST APIs, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, and webhooks.
Build best-in-class observability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring.
Improve the scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence of our platform.
Lead architectural decisions that impact multiple engineering teams.
Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems.
Help establish and grow the Platform Engineering function as EasyLlama scales.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software engineering experience
Expert-level Ruby on Rails experience building production SaaS applications
Strong React experience and the ability to work across the full stack
Extensive experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure
Strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern developer tooling
Experience owning production infrastructure with high availability and reliability requirements
Experience designing and maintaining APIs and enterprise integrations
Strong understanding of SQL, database design, caching, background processing, and notification systems like email and SMS
Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct people management
Excellent debugging, communication, and architectural design skills
A builder’s mindset with strong ownership and a passion for creating platforms that enable other engineers to move faster.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive employer-sponsored health insurance
401(k) + company matching
Professional development reimbursements
Flexible, fully remote environment
Quarterly remote work stipend