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Founding Platform Engineer – Ruby on Rails
EasyLlama - HR & Compliance Training For Modern Teams. Own the technical roadmap for Platform Engineering .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerKubernetesRabbitMQReactRubyRuby on RailsSQLTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the technical roadmap for Platform Engineering
- Architect, build, and operate scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails
- Design and operate Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud architecture, and deployment pipelines
- Improve developer productivity through CI/CD, automation, internal tooling, and engineering best practices
- Build and evolve the AI platform, including LLM orchestration, agent infrastructure, prompt management, evaluation pipelines, model routing, and AI observability
- Own billing systems including subscriptions, licensing, payments, usage metering, invoicing, and Stripe integrations
- Design and maintain secure integrations with HRIS platforms, identity providers, and enterprise customers using REST APIs, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, and webhooks
- Build observability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring
- Improve platform scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence
- Lead architectural decisions affecting multiple engineering teams
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and engineering best practices
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems
- Establish and grow the Platform Engineering function
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expert-level Ruby on Rails experience building production SaaS applications
- Strong React experience and ability to work across the full stack
- Extensive experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern developer tooling
- Experience owning production infrastructure with high availability and reliability requirements
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs and enterprise integrations
- Strong understanding of SQL, database design, caching, background processing, and email/SMS notification systems
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct people management
- Excellent debugging, communication, and architectural design skills
- Experience with AI-native products or internal AI platforms
- Experience with LLMs, AI agents, prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, and evaluation frameworks
- Experience with Stripe or other subscription billing platforms
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Helm charts
- Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, SQS, or NATS
- Experience working at a high-growth B2B SaaS company
- Experience with SOC 2, cloud security, and compliance best practices
- Open-source contributions or technical thought leadership
- Authorization to work in the United States
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive employer-sponsored health insurance
- 401(k) + company matching
- Professional development reimbursements
- Flexible, fully remote environment
- Quarterly remote work stipend
- Annual wellness stipend
- PTO
- Monthly team events
- Bonus