Engineering Manager- Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

Engineering Manager- Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

Remote - Americas

At Shopify, Engineering Managers drive impact by giving engineers the direction, support, and coaching needed to excel in our Ruby and Rails ecosystem. As the largest Ruby and Rails shop in the world, we're looking for passionate leaders who can combine technical expertise with people leadership to scale the foundational pieces of Shopify's commerce infrastructure.

You'll lead a team of Ruby and Rails experts tackling complex problems that impact not only millions of merchants worldwide, but also the Ruby and Rails open source community.

About the Team

Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team exists to ensure that Ruby and Rails are 100-year tools that will continue to merit being Shopify’s toolchain of choice. Our goal is to be stewards of the language and ecosystem, both within Shopify and within the open source community.

Ruby and Rails Infrastructure is split into three subteams, each of which operates in its own domain:

• Ruby Infrastructure works on making sure the Ruby language continues scaling at Shopify by contributing to the performance, stability and evolution of the language and its implementation internally and upstream.
• Rails Infrastructure are stewards of Rails within Shopify, and work on improving Shopify’s usage of Rails internally and contributing improvements back to the framework and ecosystem.
• Ruby Developer Experience aims to deliver an opinionated and state-of-the-art Ruby development experience to Shopify and the Ruby community.

On Ruby and Rails Infrastructure, your teammates will be Ruby and Rails experts from around the world, including members of both the Ruby Core Committers and Rails Core teams.

Recent projects include building a new just-in-time compiler for Ruby, a better frontend for Ruby type checking, and a new structured logger for Rails.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Managing a team of 6-12 individual contributors while working alongside 3 peer managers and reporting to the group's director.
• Solving cutting-edge language and framework problems while scaling the largest Rails application in the world.
• Collaborating with tech leads to make impactful decisions about how we scale the Ruby language, Rails framework, and our applications to support global commerce.
• Balancing technical contributions with people management and leadership responsibilities.
• Coaching and growing developers passionate about Ruby and Rails, helping maintain a high-performing team in Shopify’s unique remote-first environment.
• Ensuring the team works at the right level of the stack—whether internal to Shopify or in the broader Ruby and Rails ecosystem.
• Partnering with product teams to align language and framework investments with meaningful business outcomes
• Recruiting and hiring excellent candidates to grow the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team.

What You Bring

• Engineering management experience
• You are excited about AI and how it will transform how we write code in the next year and beyond.
• Deep technical expertise in programming language internals or web framework development OR substantial experience managing teams with this kind of expertise
• Examples of relevant technical experience include:

• Implementing language internals such as parsers, compilers, interpreters, or runtimes

• Designing and implementing type systems
• Developing web application frameworks (Rails, Django, etc.)
• Building developer tools such as language servers, linters, or other static analysis tools

• Experience with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails is preferred, but we welcome candidates with comparable depth in other languages and frameworks

Nice to Have

• Experience writing Ruby and Rails code, especially in large-scale production environments
• Experience contributing to Ruby, Rails, or related open-source projects
• History of technical writing or speaking about Ruby and Rails related topics
• Experience managing remote or globally distributed engineering teams

At Shopify, we move quickly—our hiring process aims to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days, including a pair programming interview where you'll demonstrate your Ruby expertise.

Join us in our mission to make commerce better for everyone while advancing the Ruby and Rails ecosystem for developers worldwide.

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About the discipline

Engineering. It’s our DNA.

Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.

They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.

They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.

Infrastructure engineering

Infrastructure Engineers at Shopify build and maintain the systems that handle millions of requests per second and billions of dollars in transactions. At that scale, performance gains matter and weak assumptions surface quickly. Your systems power the experience for millions of entrepreneurs and buyers every minute of every day, including peak events like Black Friday.

Engineers at Shopify spend the majority of their time actually writing code to build and improve infrastructure. You’ll solve problems that don’t exist anywhere else, with challenges that push what’s possible. If that lights you up, come build with us.

Growth and rewards

Mastery-matched compensation.

Explore rewards

~Mastery

At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

Built for real life

Room for the rest of your life.

Flexible work, remote by design

A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

Family support

We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.

Applying to work here

Show us your craft.

Read the candidate guide

1Life Story

The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human. What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference. Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.

2Craft assessment

We’re looking for world-class crafters. Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field. Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.

You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment. Show us what you do best, and how you do it. Shopify’s bar is high, and code wins arguments around here. Let your skills do the talking.

3Craft interviews

Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude. Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.