Software Engineer, Infrastructure

ABOUT RAMP At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done.

We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it. Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent.

More than 50,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year. Ramp’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint, and ICONIQ, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies.

The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies https://www.fastcompany.com/91038883/ramp-most-innovative-companies-2024 list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2024-50-us-companies-rise-linkedin-news-hxote/?trackingId=uBI29YlAOxikbTI7cdvG4g%3D%3D for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100 https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2024/08/06/ramp-cloud-100/, CNBC Disruptor 50 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/ramp-cnbc-disruptor-50.html, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies https://time.com/collection/time100-companies-2023/6285147/ramp/.

About the Role Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world! They are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling it in production.

We value people who take pride in their work, and show an aptitude for learning quickly whether they’re familiar with our stack or not.You’ll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, long-term impact on technical design and engineering culture. Our ideal candidate possesses a deep knowledge of AWS, or an equivalent cloud provider and will assist in constructing the upcoming versions of our database infrastructure. They have been accountable for deploying production databases and have experience handling scale, concurrency, fault tolerance, and idempotency.

They exhibit a strong sense of ownership, promptly addressing high-urgency issues, and they also mentor and foster the growth of every other team member. What You’ll Do - Influence and implement the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure - Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3 - Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership - Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low latency problems - Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events What You Need - 2+ of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred - Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure - An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems - Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform - Proficiency in an object-oriented programing language - Deep experience in one of the following: - Large-scale SQL database administration (e.g.

PostgreSQL, MySQL) - Real-time queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal) - Container Orchestration/Web Server Administration (ECS/Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask) BENEFITS (FOR U.S.-BASED FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES) - 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you - Partially covered for your dependents - One Medical annual membership - 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp) - Flexible PTO - Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year) - Parental Leave - Pet insurance - Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees - Health and Wellness stipend - In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more - Budget for intra-office travel - Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed) REFERRAL INSTRUCTIONS If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf. OTHER NOTICES Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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