Staff Engineer – Ops Cloud Platform - Ruby On Rails (remote)

Ruby on Rails Leadership Opportunity

PagerDuty is building the next generation of our core web platform to enable rapid product innovation, clear domain ownership, and a maintainable, scalable foundation for the future. The Web Evolution team is a high-impact group within the Ops Cloud Platform organization, chartered to lead this transformation and empower teams to confidently own and evolve their domains.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Why Join Us?

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of PagerDuty's core platform, working on impactful technical transformations. You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, culture, and best practices across the organization, while collaborating with talented engineers and leaders who are passionate about building for scale and reliability. The base salary range for this position is 172,000 - 289,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits. Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

Where We Work

PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:

• Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
• Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
• United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming

Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.

What We Offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site. Your package may include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
• Retirement or pension plan
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs

Additional Information

PagerDuty is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting an application, you confirm that you have read and understand PagerDuty's Privacy Policy. PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@pagerduty.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. PagerDuty uses the E-Verify employment verification program.