# Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at Gusto

- Company: Gusto
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.gusto.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/8250243?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-staff-software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure/

## About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team, you'll build automation and evolve the foundational systems that support Gusto's products. This is a code-driven infrastructure role, well suited to someone with a DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering background who enjoys solving problems that help other engineers work more effectively. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering
- Deep, production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security primitives
- Demonstrated mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu strongly preferred, Crossplane, CloudFormation, or similar) including module design, state management, and scalable patterns for large teams
- Experience with multi-account AWS governance — AWS Organizations, OU design, SCPs/RCPs, and federated identity via IAM Identity Center or equivalent SSO
- Hands-on experience with a managed IaC orchestration platform (Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, etc.)
- Experience operating production infrastructure for a customer-facing SaaS platform, including observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) and participating in incident response

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gusto-staff-software-engineer-cloud-infrastructure/