Site Reliability Engineer lll

Emburse Chrome River; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Emburse in Barcelona is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale our cloud platform and ensure 24/7 availability. You will own complex cross‑team incidents, automate cloud applications, and collaborate with product and engineering to align priorities with the roadmap.

You’ll work heavily with Kubernetes, observability, and IaC, mentoring junior engineers and shaping best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM field required.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in an engineering role required.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code, scripting, self-healing, containers, DevOps tooling, distributed systems highly desired.
• Strong Kubernetes experience.
• Observability background.
• Preferred AWS with optional Azure Cloud experience.
• Experience working with Ansible and Terraform tools highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in English; experience with full lifecycle of SaaS implementations as well as Infrastructure as code.
• Excellent follow-up and project management skills.
• Proven ability to create and maintain new tools.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Up to 70% of the job is hands on in a distributed Linux environment.
• Strong scripting skills; OOP is a plus.
• Liaise between other teams to help prioritize and align priorities.
• Experience working with an offshore team.

Responsibilities

• Meet and beat KPIs, SLAs and maintain an error budget.
• Identify, evaluate, and execute preventative measures to minimize impact on customer experience.
• Improve availability, performance, and security for CR and Emburse with 24/7 readiness.
• Code and automate applications on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to build shared services for platform teams.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and epic planning.
• Ensure platform reliability with four 9s availability.
• Define non-functional requirements for scalable distributed systems.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Containers

DevOps tooling

Scripting

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Who We Are

At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise. Develop software and software fixes to integrate internal systems. Ensure code quality, test and distribute code updates, and monitor the health and stability of the servers.

What you'll do

• Meet and beat Key Performance Indicators, SLAs, maintain an error budget and adhere to it
• Identify, evaluate, and execute preventative measures to minimize and avoid impact to the customer experience
• Employ deep troubleshooting skills to improve the availability, performance, and security for CR and Emburse, ensure services are designed with 24/7 availability and operational readiness and rigor
• Coding and Automation of Applications on Cloud Platforms
• Work with Engineering leadership to build shared services that meet the requirements and need of the platform and application teams
• Work with Cloud Platform and Operations leaders to develop narratives, backlog grooming, epic planning and overall sprint planning processes
• Ensure the platform holds a high degree of reliability, at least four 9s
• Define non-functional requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs, standards, and methods for scalable, highly available distributed systems
• Own technically intricate issues that cross between DevOps, Databases, Networking, Code, Infrastructure and people; drive them to satisfactory completion
• Work closely with product different stakeholders to align Operational priorities and planning with the product and engineering roadmap
• Prepare and present engineering related documents to key stakeholders
• Provide recommendations and feedback in review sessions, design reviews and review sessions
• Mentor SRE I and II’s
• Assist guiding more junior engineers in best practices
• Conduct and assist with investigation, test and deployment activities, identify and mitigate risks in development activities

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM field required
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in an engineering role required
• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code, scripting, self-healing, containers, DevOps tooling, distributed systems higly desired
• Strong Kubernetes experience
• Observability background
• Preferred AWS with optional Azure Cloud experience
• Experience working with Ansible and Terraform tools hightly desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in EnglishExperience with full lifecycle of SaaS implementations as well as Infrastructure as code
• Excellent follow-up and project management skills
• Proven ability to create and maintain new tools
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent technical skills. Up to 70% of the job is hands on in a distributed Linux environment
• Strong scripting skills. OOP is a plus
• Liaise between other teams to help prioritize and align priorities
• Experience working with an off shore team

Why Emburse?

Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.

• A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize their finance operations.
• A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-world challenges.
• A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports your success.
• A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making for businesses everywhere.

Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.