PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty as essential infrastructure.
Join us. At PagerDuty, you’ll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

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.

• 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.