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Staff Engineer

PagerDuty15 days ago
Toronto
CA$113,513 - CA$172,077/yearly
Staff

Top Benefits

Health insurance
Generous paid parental leave
Generous paid time off

About the role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of experience building and architecting large-scale web applications with Ruby on Rails
  • Deep, up-to-date expertise in Ruby on Rails, including the latest features, patterns, and best practices
  • Proven track record of leading technical transformations or platform modernization in production environments
  • Experience with modularization, service boundaries, and evolving complex Rails systems
  • Significant experience designing, building, testing, and operating distributed systems in a SaaS environment, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Experience with technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, and modern observability and CI/CD tooling
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across multiple engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence engineers at all levels
  • Experience as a technical leader or architect on platform or infrastructure teams, especially in high-growth SaaS environments
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and modern Rails ecosystem gems
  • Strong understanding of domain-driven design and strategies for incremental modernization
  • Track record of enabling and supporting shared code ownership models
  • Passion for building maintainable, scalable systems and empowering teams to move fast with confidence

What the job involves

  • Ruby on Rails Leadership: Serve as the organization’s foremost expert in Ruby on Rails, bringing the latest best practices, patterns, and innovations to our core web platform
  • Architectural Strategy: Define and drive the technical architecture for our web platform, focusing on modularity, scalability, and maintainability using modern Rails patterns and tools
  • Modernization & Innovation: Identify opportunities to evolve our platform architecture, leveraging the latest Rails features, gems, and community standards to improve developer experience and system performance
  • Collaboration & Enablement: Partner closely with domain teams to understand their needs, provide technical guidance, and ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements
  • Best Practices & Standards: Establish and promote guidelines for high-quality, maintainable Rails code, automated testing, and CI/CD
  • Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers across the organization, lead technical discussions, and create training materials to elevate Rails expertise company-wide
  • Communication & Influence: Act as a key liaison between platform and domain teams, facilitating clear communication, driving consensus, and ensuring alignment on technical direction
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay current with the Ruby on Rails ecosystem, proactively introducing new tools, techniques, and patterns to keep our platform at the forefront of modern web development

Benefits

  • 20 hours per year of paid volunteer time
  • Health insurance
  • Wellness Days and mid-year Wellness Week: extra time off for whole company to unplug and recharge at the same time
  • Generous paid parental leave and return to work policy to help with transition back
  • Generous paid time off
  • Hands-on career and leadership development programs
  • Flexible workplace/WFH

About PagerDuty

Software Development
1001-5000

In an always-on world, teams trust PagerDuty to help them deliver an optimal digital experience to their customers, every time. PagerDuty is the central nervous system for a company’s digital operations. We identify issues and opportunities in real-time and bring together the right people to respond to problems faster and prevent them in the future. From digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies, over 18,000 businesses rely on PagerDuty to help them continually improve their digital operations—so their teams can spend less time reacting to incidents and more time building for the future.

Dutonians believe that we are a part of a bigger movement of businesses being built to benefit everyone—the customer and the employee, as well as our community. We are go-getters fueled by the fire to reinvent how people and companies work together. We take the lead and get creative to be first in the hearts of our customers. Whether it’s keeping the world on or changing it entirely, Dutonians are fueled by the fire to reinvent how people and companies work together to deliver in real-time, across the globe.

Join us to lead uncharted efforts and reinvent how companies run.