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As a Principal Software Engineer, design, build, and test scalable payroll and tax systems, lead technical efforts across teams, mentor engineers, and integrate AI solutions to enhance product efficiency.

The Senior Staff Security Engineer will lead edge and network security at Gusto, managing Cloudflare tools and network architecture, focusing on automation and policy-as-code practices while collaborating across teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce Apex solutions for Sales and Customer Experience teams. Use AI coding assistants throughout development, apply Salesforce architecture and release-management practices, deploy with sf CLI, and build reliable production systems at scale. Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions, measure feature impact, and contribute to non-Salesforce codebases when needed.

Partners with Product Management and Product Design leaders on performance management, promotions, leveling, employee relations, organizational changes, and talent programs. Analyzes People data to identify trends, operationalizes performance and calibration processes, coordinates with People team centers of excellence, and executes organizational changes end to end, including communications, Workday updates, and leader enablement.

Lead Gusto’s approximately 25-person AI Platform engineering organization. Set technical strategy and roadmaps for AI agents and shared agent infrastructure, determine platform ownership boundaries, develop managers and technical leaders, establish production standards for prompts, tools, policies, evaluation, reliability, guardrails, and cost management, and align engineering with product, data science, and company-wide AI strategy.

Leads and develops a data science and analytics team supporting growth product initiatives. The role combines people management with hands-on product analytics, experimentation, measurement framework development, and AI product evaluation. It partners with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Finance to influence strategy, optimize user experiences, guide AI-powered feature development, and communicate actionable insights to senior leadership.

Design and maintain Gusto’s Workbench design system, including components, patterns, token architecture, and theming. Partner with engineers on coded implementations, documentation, migration strategy, and accessibility. Help build AI tooling and LLM-readable documentation so designers and engineers can use the system correctly, and support the broader team through reviews, office hours, and async guidance.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data products. Partners with analytics, product, and engineering teams to create reliable, testable, user-friendly data systems. Works on data modeling, cloud data platforms, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, performance optimization, and AI-enabled automation for data engineering.

Build and own Gusto’s AI agent platform for support advocates, including the LLM agent runtime, tool/action layer, Rails/GraphQL backend, frontend experience, and evaluation/monitoring systems. Work with LLMs, retrieval, prompting, and feedback loops to improve reliability and safety, ship autonomous actions with human approval, and partner with Product, Data, Design, and CX. Mentor engineers and help set engineering standards for trustworthy agentic systems.

Lead paid social and emerging channel experimentation across Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora, and TikTok. Manage multi-million dollar budgets, design and analyze creative tests, apply AI-powered workflows, run pilots for new channels, partner with integrated teams on launches, and drive pipeline and revenue using Gusto's measurement framework.