Infrastructure Engineer | All Levels

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 allinone solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with builtin intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. But we’re not just building features powered by AI. We’re building a platform where agents can chase receipts, close books, flag risks, and surface insights. This enables teams to reclaim their time and reinvest in what matters.

More than 40,000 businesses, from familyowned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastestgrowing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $80 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, among others, in addition to 100+ angel investors who have been founders or executives of leading companies.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

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 crossfunctional, 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. As an early employee, you’ll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, longterm 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 highurgency 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 Ramps database, realtime queue, or container orchestration infrastructure

• Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloudnative technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECSEKS, 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 Ramps 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 highquality architectures for critical systems preferred

  • Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure

  • An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with highimpact ways to quickly solve their problems

  • Expertise in a production deployment of InfrastructureasCode i.e. Terraform

  • Proficiency in an objectoriented programing language

  • Deep experience in one of the following:

    • Largescale SQL database administration (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)

    • Realtime queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal)

    • Container OrchestrationWeb Server Administration (ECSKubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask)

    • • Benefits (for U.S.based fulltime 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 $5,000 per year)

            • WFH stipend to support your home office needs

            • Wellness stipend

            • Parental Leave

            • Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

            • Pet insurance

            • Referral Instructions

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