Ship customer-facing product features primarily for our AWS-based PaaS across our stack, which includes: Ruby on Rails backend systems, a web app (React-TypeScript), a Terraform client (Go), and a CLI client (Ruby), and more.
Work closely with Product and Design to clarify requirements, make tradeoffs, and deliver in small, high-quality increments.
Improve developer experience, including internal tooling, local development workflows, and the path from code to production.
Contribute to reliability and operability improvements, including CI/CD, release processes, observability, and incident response tooling.
Participate in the on call rotation, and help drive follow-ups that reduce repeat incidents and make the system easier to operate.
Partner with our customer-facing engineering team to investigate customer issues and deliver fixes or improvements when needed.
Use AI tools to improve your development workflow and velocity.

You have experience shipping production software as a fullstack engineer (targeting mid-level to Senior II).
You communicate extremely well — you are clear, effective, and proactive in your communication, both speaking and in writing.
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and coding ability, and comfort working across a fullstack codebase.
You are a prolific and thoughtful developer in at least one mainstream language, and can pick up new languages/frameworks quickly.
You are comfortable building developer-facing interfaces and workflows, not just backend services.
You are comfortable working in cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
You are comfortable thinking through security, privacy, and compliance implications as part of feature work.
You have a strong track record as an expert in the products you've built, and as a go-to resource for Product Design and Product Management during early feature and product planning.
You want to be part of a small, highly collaborative Engineering Team.
You don't let ambiguity or bumps in the road stop you: you identify what's blocking you, take ownership, and drive to get unblocked.
You are located in the contiguous United States.

Remote (Country)

Team size: small. Structure: highly collaborative Engineering Team

Aptible is a good fit for pragmatic AI skeptics and for AI enthusiasts who are clear-eyed about its limitations and risks.
We are a security and compliance company, and our primary goal is to make it easy for our customers to stay secure and compliant in the cloud.
We don't believe that AI is the answer to everything. In fact, we carry healthy skepticism about it and have clear eyes about its negative impacts on society, the environment, engineering culture, and more.
We engage with it for two reasons: 1. Because our customers do. And to best serve them, we need expertise in AI use, AI risk, AI development, and more. 2. Because sometimes AI is the right tool for the job, and sometimes it accelerates our work. And at heart, we are pragmatists.
Aptible is a good fit if you're someone who can hold multiple ideas at once about AI -- the utility and the risk, the potential and the cost, enthusiasm and skepticism.
If you're categorically opposed to working with it in any form or an unbridled enthusiast, this probably isn't the right fit.

Your resume — Don't submit AI-generated resumes. They will be discarded. Concise and real wins with us.
Live conversations — Don't use real-time AI to generate answers that you read off to us. It’s obvious, and we'll end the interview. Honest and real wins with us.
Technical topics/work — Use any tools you normally would, including AI agents. But be honest about what you used, be discerning about what AI outputs, and be ready to explain your thinking. AI output refined by human judgment wins with us.

We see great value in bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and we prioritize diversity within our team.
We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Aptible has been around for over a decade. We have a real product, real customers who depend on it, and a profitable business.
We're not a rocketship chasing hypergrowth — we're a small, tight-knit team doing meaningful work in a complex system.
Together, we wield genuine ownership to drive lasting impact: the kind where our work shapes the whole product, not just a corner of it.
We're not looking for someone who thinks they have all the answers already. We're looking for someone who wants to find them with us.
What keeps us here is each other. We're a team that genuinely cares — about the work, the customers (and the cool things they’re building), and each other.
If you want to do hard things alongside people you actually like and respect, and leave a lasting mark on a system that matters, this is that place.

You should apply if you want to do hands-on implementation, not just architect solutions.
You're a deeply curious problem solver, and you're not tied to a specific language or technology.
You're invested in team ownership — you care about what your teammates are building, not just your own work.

Aptible is hiring a Software Engineer II - Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack)