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Build and operate AWS GovCloud data infrastructure across development, preproduction, and production environments. Establish PostgreSQL platforms, infrastructure-as-code with Chef, BI infrastructure, identity integrations, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Support data pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, optimize databases, and ensure FedRAMP and FISMA compliance. Collaborate with security, compliance, DevOps, and data engineering teams while delivering greenfield infrastructure from architecture through production.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead design and delivery of backend-focused full-stack features for the Business Platform. Build APIs, data models, and reliable parsers, ensure secure resilient systems, mentor engineers, drive estimates and quality, collaborate with Growth on data-driven features, and integrate AI tooling into development workflows.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated using GitLab Geo. Plan replication, cutovers, network connectivity, and post-migration validation while debugging synchronization issues. Build repeatable automation, runbooks, and infrastructure validation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Manage multiple customer engagements, advise stakeholders, communicate technical plans, and collaborate with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams.

Operate and automate large-scale data plane services (Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, etc.), build infrastructure for a devops model, troubleshoot production incidents, and ensure petabyte-scale data is secure, available, and efficiently managed.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and work-item hierarchies, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor contributors, and participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.

Responsible for building new products, updating existing offerings, leading projects, mentoring, and ensuring quality and alignment in technical implementation. Collaborate with teams to drive projects from ideation to production.

The role involves ensuring software reliability and performance, managing incidents, developing infrastructure automation, and mentoring junior engineers within a platform team.

Lead hands-on full-stack development for Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React applications. Shape technical direction, design reliable APIs and data flows, optimize relational database performance, and deliver responsive front-end experiences. Lead projects end to end, mentor engineers, review and refactor code, collaborate cross-functionally, and explore AI-assisted engineering and LLM automation while protecting sensitive healthcare data.

Build and maintain full-stack Ruby on Rails and React applications for defense and logistics operations. Responsibilities include designing APIs and data models, developing multi-source ingestion pipelines, creating data visualizations, deploying services on Kubernetes, implementing observability and security, optimizing disconnected-environment performance, and collaborating with product and design teams. The role also involves architecture discussions, technical documentation, testing, code reviews, and integration with secure DoD systems.

Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, designing scalable infrastructure, APIs, gateways, backend services, self-service tooling, and automation. Evaluate and implement AI agents and workflows within developer tooling, improve reliability and engineering productivity, lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and influence cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires operating complex production systems across Ruby/Rails, Python, Rust, React/TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.

Build and evolve Nexus interfaces across Temporal SDKs, integrating language runtimes with durable, deterministic workflow execution. Design APIs, implement concurrent distributed-system features, support multiple programming languages, collaborate with open-source communities, debug complex issues, and document technical concepts. The role also contributes foundational runtime capabilities for agentic AI systems and requires occasional coworker travel.

Design, develop, and maintain secure integrations across NetSuite, Coupa, Leapfin, and other enterprise systems. Build iPaaS workflows, custom connectors, webhook and event-driven automations, bulk synchronization processes, monitoring, error handling, and retry mechanisms. Translate finance requirements into technical specifications and data mappings, support implementation projects, document architectures, and maintain audit readiness. Apply AI-powered tooling to automate finance operations while ensuring compliance, security, and reliable handling of sensitive financial data.

Lead infrastructure modernization and platform reliability across multiple cloud providers. Design infrastructure as code, operate Kubernetes and Linux environments, improve CI/CD and deployment tooling, establish SLI/SLO practices, strengthen observability, lead incident response, manage cloud costs, and partner on security and compliance. Provide technical leadership through architecture guidance, mentorship, engineering standards, and roadmap development while participating in on-call support.

Build and automate infrastructure while supporting migration to AWS. Develop internal engineering and AI-agent tooling, architect secure and highly available applications, modernize WordPress systems, troubleshoot complex environments, and provide rotating 24/7 on-call support. The role also requires designing AWS multi-account strategies, developing CI/CD pipelines, applying specification-driven development, monitoring systems, forecasting cloud costs, and supporting scalable web applications.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical direction and delivery for order management systems supporting checkout, order lifecycles, fulfillment orchestration, and partner integrations. Design reliable distributed services and workflows, make architectural tradeoffs, and improve scalability, correctness, observability, testing, and operational readiness. Partner cross-functionally to define scope and outcomes, lead incidents and remediation, manage launches, and mentor engineers. Work across Go, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kafka, Temporal, Datadog, and AI-assisted development tools.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Own and evolve Pair Team’s shared platform across AWS, application infrastructure, databases, integrations, CI/CD, and developer tooling. Build foundational Ruby on Rails services for authorization, jobs, queues, deployments, and integrations. Improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience through reusable patterns and self-service workflows. Operate production systems, resolve infrastructure and application issues, and partner with engineering and product teams to establish technical standards and support organizational growth.

Lead customers in observability strategy, telemetry schema design, sampling, instrumentation, and SRE practices. Build and ship production instrumentation, SLOs, and dashboards; mentor engineering teams; troubleshoot technical and sociotechnical issues; create enablement content; and represent customer insights internally. The role combines long-term technical advisory work with hands-on delivery across cloud platforms, infrastructure, CI/CD, and distributed systems.

Provides technical leadership for site reliability and operational development. Designs automated, repeatable cloud and infrastructure solutions; monitors service objectives and business metrics; improves application resiliency, performance, efficiency, and cost. Builds monitoring, deployment, testing, and vulnerability-response automation while supporting mission-critical production systems. Collaborates with software, security, product, and business teams, conducts technical training and resilience exercises, and promotes sound development, change-management, and operational practices.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.