Top Ruby Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and maintain cloud-based development, build, testing, deployment, and production infrastructure. Own platform systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tools. Collaborate with engineers on a you-build-it-you-run-it platform, troubleshoot incidents, lead postmortems, address root causes, and automate improvements to enhance reliability, performance, and stability.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Scale and improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of Fleetio’s Ruby on Rails application and infrastructure. Responsibilities include observability, incident response, AI-powered automation, database capacity planning, disaster recovery, backups, documentation, performance analysis, code review, and on-call participation. The role collaborates with engineering teams to address bottlenecks and adopt AI-driven reliability practices.

Build and scale highly available applications and services for Mux’s video platform. Develop customer-facing features across Elixir and Go backend services and React frontend applications, including billing, usage, identity, account management, webhooks, and alerting. Collaborate on technical roadmaps while solving distributed systems, concurrency, scheduling, scaling, and platform resilience challenges. Deploy complex applications using cloud platforms and Kubernetes.

Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Ruby on Rails. Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and test coverage. Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA to deliver production-quality code for web and mobile platforms.

Design and operate scalable, secure, highly available AWS infrastructure for a revenue management platform. Build infrastructure automation, CI/CD tooling, monitoring, and developer tools; advise on architecture, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot 24/7 incidents, lead root cause analyses, support AI-enabled DevOps workflows, and mentor engineers. The role participates in a weekly on-call rotation and is remote in the US or Canada.

Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Own architecture, APIs, data models, monitoring, performance, and code quality while collaborating with product, data, and DevOps teams. Provide technical leadership through system design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement in a remote-first healthcare technology environment.

Build and modernize Carrum Health’s data platform by developing Python and SQL pipelines, AWS services, Terraform infrastructure, dbt transformations, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Automate carrier integrations, reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and support Databricks adoption. Extend AI-assisted ingestion and classification using Bedrock and collaborate across engineering, analytics, data science, and client-facing teams. The role includes production ownership, incident response, technical documentation, and healthcare data platform development.

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.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

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.

Drive technical direction and architecture across teams for enterprise retail software. Improve platform reliability and performance, scope customer-facing features, mentor engineers, de-risk large work, and embed AI-native practices (LLMs/agents) into engineering workflows.

Build and scale full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, infrastructure, and user experiences supporting millions of users. Design reliable, high-performance systems; partner with Product, Design, and Data; own projects through deployment and optimization; improve observability and developer productivity; and support AI adoption through automation and AI-powered workflows.

Operate and improve AWS production infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes workloads, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. The role investigates root causes, strengthens application resilience, automates operational tasks, supports database and performance reliability, maintains documentation, and participates in 24/7 on-call rotations. The engineer owns scoped reliability projects and collaborates with product engineering teams on resilient, secure, and compliant systems.

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.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, leading complex initiatives, partnering with product and design, mentoring engineers, and owning reliability, performance, observability, and on-call operations. The role spans backend data models and asynchronous processing through frontend design systems and visualizations. Required experience includes 10+ years of full-stack software development, Ruby, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, scalable relational systems, and AI-assisted development practices.

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.

Build and maintain automation, integrations, file-processing tools, migrations, and other software that reduces operational toil. Investigate root causes, resolve implementation and escalation issues, develop reusable solutions, and support systems through on-call participation. Partner with commercial, product, and engineering teams while using Ruby on Rails, APIs, workflow automation platforms, and AI-assisted development. The role also involves debugging, optimization, code quality, and ramping onto unfamiliar systems.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.

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

Leads development of scalable backend systems and applications for the Mindbody ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing APIs and microservices, owning complex technical projects, collaborating with Product, Design, and QA, promoting engineering best practices, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews and interviews, and leading incident postmortems. The role requires strong software architecture experience, large-scale SaaS development, cloud and database expertise, and effective cross-functional leadership.

Leads cloud platform maturity, architecture, modernization, continuous delivery, observability, incident response, and technical standards. Collaborates across software, infrastructure, security, networking, database, and operations teams while driving Agile improvements, executive communications, technical documentation, customer issue resolution, RFI responses, and strategic adoption of cloud, AI, analytics, and digital technologies.

Lead the development of healthcare applications and data systems, focusing on audience intelligence and compliance. Design scalable data pipelines, APIs, and reporting systems while ensuring high data quality and security in regulated environments.