Senior Staff Software Engineer - Pricing and Packaging
Gusto, Inc. · San Francisco, CA
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Gusto, Inc.'s roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 49% of Gusto, Inc.'s roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Gusto, Inc.
- high 96 stale, 9 reposted of 97 open
- Hiring momentum
- 146 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Pricing & Packaging team at Gusto, you will lead the technical direction of the internal Commerce Platform, focusing on architecture and delivery of systems that manage product pricing and packaging for small businesses. Your role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and leveraging AI tools to enhance engineering practices. You will also be responsible for ensuring platform reliability and performance while driving complex projects from inception to completion.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- At least 2 years in a tech lead or staff engineer role
- Mastery in at least one programming language (e.g. Ruby, Java, Python, Go)
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale backend platform systems in commerce, billing, subscription management, pricing and packaging
- Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and service reliability practices
- Experience defining and meeting SLOs in production environments
What you get
- Competitive base pay
- Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies or frameworks mentioned, which may indicate a broad tech stack or legacy systems.
- High-stakes platform work may involve significant pressure and responsibility.
- Hybrid work model requires in-office presence 2-3 days per week for local employees.
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Listed by Gusto, Inc. on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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