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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Software Engineer I - **Company:** Invoca, Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $127,000.0 - $191,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), OAuth, OpenID, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Bundler, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** May 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=16285b4a0f30e73f ## About the Role Do you have experience in Triage?, * CI/CD, Release Engineering, (Buildkite/Backstage) * ArgoCD, Kubernetes * Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Bundler, dependency management * Runtime/framework upgrades (Ruby upgrades, Rails upgrades) * Auth0 (or similar IdP), OAuth/OIDC concepts, M2M authentication * Terraform / infrastructure-as-code (nice-to-have) * Observability, on-call/operational support, incident analysis * AI-assisted development (Cursor, Claude Code) and best-practice sharing * Working experience in a PAAS environment ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer I on Octothorpe, you'll be an individual contributor reporting to the Sr. Software Engineering Manager. You'll focus on turning our internal engineering platform vision into reality by strengthening our CI/CD, driving key Ruby/Rails platform upgrades, and making authentication/authorization safer and more standardized across services. You'll operate as an expert within the team's domains: solving large-scope problems, leading small efforts from design through rollout, and helping your teammates remove bottlenecks. The work is highly cross-functional and platform-oriented., * Build and maintain reliable, scalable CI/CD workflows (guardrails, automation, reusable patterns/templates). * Enhance Backstage as the unified developer portal, improving CI/CD visibility, deployment tracking, and self-service workflows. * Improve developer feedback loops: reduce flaky pipelines, speed up builds/tests, and increase observability of the release toolchain. * Operationally support release tooling (triage, incident follow-ups, preventative improvements). Drive Ruby/Rails platform upgrades (monolith + ecosystem) * Lead or heavily contribute to Ruby and Rails upgrade efforts, including: * + Coordinating cross-repo changes (application, Docker/CI images, shared gems, test strategy). + Creating safe rollout plans (canaries, staged deploys, rollback paths) and enabling other teams through docs/runbooks., * Build and improve self-service tooling and Golden Path workflows through Backstage, CI/CD templates, and standardized patterns so service teams can safely own their own infra, config, and auth changes without gatekeepers. * Help standardize and operationalize Auth0 and other authentication/authorization patterns across environments * Partner with service teams to drive Golden Path adoption, unblock migrations, and turn platform investments into org-wide leverage. 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