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About this Staff Engineer, DevOps role at Floqast

Floqast · Hybrid · San Jose, California
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’s most recognizable brands.
 
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.

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.
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    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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    About FloQast:
    FloQast is the leading AI-powered Accounting Transformation Platform, uniquely built by former accountants for accountants. We automate complex, recurring accounting workflows—transforming preparers into strategic reviewers and relieving accountants from tedious manual work. Our cloud-based solution is trusted by over 3,500 world-class accounting teams, including Lululemon, Doordash, and the MLB, to drive collaboration and financial accuracy. Driven by a mission to continuously elevate the profession, FloQast is redefining both the practice and the perception of accounting on a global scale. 
     
    Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:
    Unwaveringly Authentic 
    Ambitious with Integrity
    Empowered to Grow
    Committed to Collaboration
    Customer Obsessed in All Ways
     
    FloQast is regularly rated as a Best Place to Work!
    - Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021
    - Best Places to Work by LA Business Journal since 2017 (that’s 9 years!)
    - Built In’s ​​Best Place to Work in Los Angeles 7 years in a row!
     
    Because we are Customer Obsessed in All Ways, check out what our customers have to say about FloQast on G2 Crowd. 
     
    If this aligns closely with what you are looking for, hit “Apply” and come join our growing team!
     
    FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education, and experience. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees.
     
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