Software Engineer – Engineering Platform

Ramp

Software Engineer building infrastructure that helps 300+ engineers at Ramp. Responsible for CI/CD pipelines, dev deploy infrastructure, and reliability tooling in a fast-paced environment.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $246,900 - $339,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGraphiteKafkaPostgresPythonRedisSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build systems that make 300 engineers faster — merge queues, dev deploys, CI/CD, Smart Reviewer, stack tooling — and own the blast radius when things slow down
Lead important incidents end-to-end: diagnose root cause (DB serialization failures, Redis latency spikes, Temporal timeouts), fix it, write the postmortem, and prevent the next one
Design golden paths for services — API, DB migrations, Kafka, Temporal, secrets — so teams can spin up infrastructure without reinventing the wheel every time
Own the full dev tooling surface: Devportal, Graphite, Buildkite, Inspect, dev deploys, LaunchDarkly, Datadog — and understand how they interact under pressure
Treat the SDLC as a factory: measure PR throughput, CI/CD end-to-end time, and defect rates, then fix the bottlenecks instead of just monitoring them
Turn recurring developer friction — flaky tests, spicy migrations, ECR credential expiry, devtool onboard failures — into one-time fixes, not on-call rituals
Build agent-friendly infrastructure: golden paths, documentation, and tooling so AI coding agents can execute tasks correctly without a human untangling Temporal, migrations, or feature flags
Build AI-native reliability tooling — on-call automation, review agents, autonomous testing — and design clean handoffs from AI investigation to human-authorized action
Think at the system level about tech debt: feature flag cleanup, dead code deletion, punchlist orchestration — because dead code confuses agents and humans equally

Requirements

What you’ll need

You think in systems: you understand how a 400-connection pool cap, a Redis replica for feature flag cache warmup, and a Cloudflare worker change interact under load
You've built and operated CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform systems at meaningful scale
You're comfortable diagnosing production failures at the infrastructure layer — connection pools, serialization issues, cache misses, distributed timeouts
You have strong opinions about software architecture and don't confuse them for facts — you know when to ship the 80/20 and when to slow down and design it right
You use AI as a force multiplier — coding agents, agentic testing, AI-augmented code review — and you're building the infrastructure that makes that possible, not threatened by it
You care deeply about the reliability of prod, the experience of other engineers, and the quality of what you ship
Experience with our stack is a plus: Python, Temporal, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Buildkite, LaunchDarkly, Datadog, AWS

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
Parental Leave
Unlimited AI token usage
Pet insurance
Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
Health and Wellness stipend
In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
Budget for intra-office travel
Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDAPI designDB migrationsdiagnosing production failuressoftware architecturefeature flag managementautonomous testingcoding agentsinfrastructure scalingsystem-level thinking

Soft Skills

leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationreliability focuscollaborationcritical thinkingattention to detailadaptabilityopinionated about architectureexperience empathy