Staff Software Engineer | FedRAMP Infrastructure

undefined ago • 6 Years + • Devops • $246,900 PA - $339,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Ramp is an engineering company focused on building a world-class team, with its Infrastructure organization supporting core product foundations like compute orchestration, databases, and observability. This cross-functional Staff Software Engineer role specifically focuses on enabling government environments (FedRAMP, GovRAMP). The successful candidate will technically own and guide the evolution of government infrastructure, shaping compliant patterns, identifying risks, and partnering with engineers to ensure architecture meets strict operational and security requirements. The role requires deep cloud infrastructure experience, strong ownership, collaborative instincts, and an understanding of secure, regulated environments, with a desire to mentor and elevate the team.
Must have:
  • Influence and evolve infrastructure for government environments.
  • Contribute to next-gen database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure.
  • Collaborate on cloud-native best practices (Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, ECS/EKS, Kafka, Aurora, Redis, S3).
  • Build Terraform abstractions to increase developer velocity.
  • Solve scaling, performance, and low-latency problems.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering culture.
  • Minimum 6 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems.
  • Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to think through customer requirements and solve problems.
  • Expertise in production Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
  • Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language.
  • Proven experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure compliant with FedRAMP.
  • Expertise implementing secure Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions aligned with FedRAMP controls and audits.
  • Deep understanding of secure data handling, encryption, logging, and access controls for FedRAMP.
  • Strong experience building, scaling, and securing database and container orchestration systems to meet FedRAMP compliance.
Perks:
  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered medical, dental & vision insurance for your dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
  • 401k (including employer match on contributions)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
  • WFH stipend to support home office needs
  • Wellness stipend
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation support to NYC or SF
  • Pet insurance

Job Details

About Ramp

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 40,000 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 $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, 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 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. Our Infrastructure supports the foundations of our product and platform, owning areas like compute orchestration, databases, messaging, observability, and developer environments. We build the primitives and abstractions that let product teams move fast while ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.

This role is a cross-functional position within the Infrastructure organization, with a specific focus on enabling our government environments (FedRAMP, GovRAMP). You’ll act as both a technical owner and a multiplier: helping shape compliant infrastructure patterns, identifying risks across infra domains, and partnering closely with other infra engineers to ensure our architecture continues to meet strict operational and security requirements.

You will be expected to take ownership of our government infrastructure and guide its evolution, while also contributing to high-leverage infra projects across the org.

Our ideal candidate combines deep cloud infrastructure experience with a strong sense of ownership, collaborative instincts, understands the nuances of operating in secure and regulated environments, and has a desire to mentor others and raise the bar across the team.

What You’ll Do

  • Influence the evolution of Ramp’s infrastructure to support our government environments
  • Work across infra domains to contribute to the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure, and ensure proposed changes are viable within our secure environments
  • Collaborate 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 architecture and increase developer velocity and ownership
  • Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low-latency problems
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical production events
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture

What You Need

  • Minimum 6 years 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

FedRAMP Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS) compliant with FedRAMP security standards.
  • Expertise implementing secure Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions aligned with FedRAMP controls and audits.
  • Deep understanding of secure data handling, encryption, logging, and access controls required under FedRAMP guidelines.
  • Strong experience building, scaling, and securing database infrastructure and container orchestration systems to meet FedRAMP compliance.

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 $5,000 per year)
  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs
  • Wellness stipend
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation support to NYC or SF
  • Pet insurance

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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Compensation Range: $246.9K - $339.5K

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