Staff Engineer, DevOps

FloQast; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

A leading SaaS company is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to lead architectural initiatives while collaborating across teams in a hybrid work environment. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering, with deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, container orchestration, and CI/CD practices. With a competitive salary range and a comprehensive benefits package, this is an opportunity to make significant impacts on software development processes while enjoying a flexible working model.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or similar role leading high-impact projects.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and container orchestration.
• Experience in implementing observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural enhancements and integration solutions.
• Design and build reliable systems ensuring high durability and availability.
• Develop and evolve CI/CD workflows to improve developer efficiency.

Skills

Cloud-native technologies

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub)

Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go)

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Grafana

AWS CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Overview

FloQast is a fast-growing SaaS company innovating how accounting teams close the books faster and more accurately. Our mission is to take manual, error-prone work out of financial close and give teams the tools they need to collaborate, automate, and scale. We\'re trusted by thousands of accounting teams, including some of the world\u2019s most recognizable brands.

This job is hybrid 3 days a week to our San Jose office.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available at this time.

What You\'ll Do

• Architectural Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert, defining and driving architectural enhancements, design, and integration solutions across the platform utilizing serverless and containerization technologies.
• System Reliability: Design and build reliable systems, ensuring high standards for durability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
• Operational Excellence: Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and establish proactive alerting and real-time dashboards for deep insights into system health.
• Automation and CI/CD Strategy: Develop and evolve CI/CD workflows, automating tasks across the full software development lifecycle to improve developer experience and efficiency.
• Mentorship and Best Practices: Serve as a top level technical mentor to senior and junior engineers, promoting and enforcing methodologies and best practices, including test-driven development and automated testing.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and other teams to identify and address complex technical challenges with company-wide impact.

What You\'ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role with a track record of leading large-scale, high-impact projects.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, especially container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools like Grafana, Coralogix, AWS CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL).
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub) and building/maintaining advanced automation pipelines.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, and infrastructure concepts.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Independent leadership: self-motivated and capable of working autonomously, taking initiative to solve ambiguous, high-level problems.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with attention to detail and experience leading root-cause analysis.
• Mentorship: a natural leader who enjoys guiding and upskilling other engineers.

Additional Information

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This job posting is for our Senior Staff Engineer, Data. The base pay range for this position is $164,000 - $246,000. Compensation includes a Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast may amend pay ranges and benefits offerings. All applicants acknowledge that pay ranges are contingent upon qualifications and interview outcomes. FloQast is an equal opportunity employer.

About FloQast

FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants. This cloud-based software helps teams collaborate more effectively and complete tasks with greater efficiency and precision. It is trusted by over 3,000 accounting teams, including Snowflake, Twilio, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors.

Our values are Unwaveringly Authentic, Ambitious with Integrity, Empowered to Grow, Committed to Collaboration, and Customer Obsessed in All Ways.

FloQast is regularly rated as a Best Place to Work by Inc. Magazine, LA Business Journal, Built In, and others. Check out what our customers say about FloQast on G2 Crowd.

If this aligns closely with what you are looking for, hit “Apply” and join our growing team!

FloQast is committed to equal opportunity employment and to operating fair recruitment procedures. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

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