Software Engineer, FedRAMP Infrastructure

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 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 50,000 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 $100 billion in purchases each year. Ramp’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint, and ICONIQ, 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 https://www.fastcompany.com/91038883/ramp-most-innovative-companies-2024 list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2024-50-us-companies-rise-linkedin-news-hxote/?trackingId=uBI29YlAOxikbTI7cdvG4g%3D%3D for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100 https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2024/08/06/ramp-cloud-100/, CNBC Disruptor 50 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/ramp-cnbc-disruptor-50.html, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies https://time.com/collection/time100-companies-2023/6285147/ramp/. 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 $10,000 per year) - Parental Leave - Unlimited AI token usage - Pet insurance - Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees - Health and Wellness stipend - In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more - Budget for intra-office travel - Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed) REFERRAL INSTRUCTIONS If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf. 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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