FloQast

Staff Engineer, DevOps

FloQast$164K — $246K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering with significant project impact.
  • Expertise in cloud-native technologies, especially Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Advanced knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana and AWS CloudWatch.
  • Proven experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitHub.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Exceptional communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Self-motivated and capable of independent problem-solving.
  • Experience mentoring junior and senior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architectural improvements and integrations across the SaaS platform.
  • Design and build reliable systems with high durability and performance standards.
  • Define and enforce service level indicators and proactive monitoring dashboards.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD workflows to improve developer efficiency.
  • Mentor engineers and enforce best practices in software development.
  • Collaborate with various teams to address complex technical challenges.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
  • Family Forming benefits.
  • Life and Disability Insurance.
  • Unlimited Vacation Policy.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the technical direction, architecture, and reliability of our secure, scalable, and high-performance SaaS platform. In this role, you'll be a leader, tackling complex engineering challenges, mentoring other engineers, and influencing the company's technical strategy. If you are passionate about building and scaling reliable, cloud-native systems and thrive on solving problems that span multiple teams, we want to hear from you.

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: Take ownership of designing and building 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: Work with the developer experience team to develop and evolve CI/CD workflows, automating tasks across the full software development lifecycle to significantly 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 that have a company-wide impact.


What You'll Bring

  • Extensive Experience: 8+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role, with a track record of driving large-scale, high-impact projects.
  • Technical Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Advanced Tooling: Expertise in implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including tools like Grafana, Coralogix, AWS CloudWatch, and Open Telemetry (OTEL).
  • CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub) and a history of building and managing advanced automation pipelines.
  • Deep Cloud Knowledge: A solid understanding of advanced AWS networking, security, and infrastructure concepts.
  • Scripting and Automation: Expertise in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Exceptional Communication: Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Independent Leadership: Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously, taking initiative to identify and solve ambiguous, high-level problems.
  • Problem-Solving: An analytical thinker with strong attention to detail and a proven ability to lead root-cause analysis and problem-solving efforts.
  • Mentorship: A natural leader who enjoys guiding and upskilling other engineers.


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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 is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation. FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company's discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.

About FloQast

FloQast is a provider of accounting workflow automation software created by accountants for accountants. The company was founded in 2013 by Mike Whitmire and Chris Sluty and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. FloQast's software helps accounting teams close their books faster and more accurately by automating manual tasks and providing a centralized platform for collaboration and documentation. The company has raised over $93 million in funding and has over 1,000 customers, including Twilio, Zillow, and The Golden State Warriors.
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300 employees
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Founded
2013

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