The Role
Design, build, and operate Emburse's cloud-based developer platform while tackling technical challenges, automating CI/CD workflows, and mentoring teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions, 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.
At Emburse, we simplify how the world’s best companies manage spend. More than 18,000 customers trust us to make expense, travel, and invoicing effortless.
Our Platform Engineering group builds the foundation that every Emburse product team relies on. We deliver secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automation that makes deployments faster, safer, and more reliable. If you love working with modern tools, scaling Kubernetes, and shaping world-class CI/CD practices, you’ll thrive here.
We are seeking a Senior / Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate Emburse’s cloud-based developer platform. In this role, you will own complex technical challenges across infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud-native operations while mentoring others and helping shape platform-as-a-product initiatives that support every Emburse engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale AWS infrastructure with Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, automated pipelines).
- Design and automate CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, creating reusable pipelines and standardizing release practices.
- Operate Kubernetes clusters at scale (EKS, AKS, GKE) — deploying services, troubleshooting, and maintaining system health.
- Implement resilience and reliability features such as autoscaling, load balancing, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Drive incident response and prevention: participate in on-call rotations, run post-incident reviews, and continuously improve stability.
- Mentor teammates on cloud automation and platform engineering best practices.
- Collaborate across the engineering lifecycle: provide feedback in design/code reviews, document key decisions, and engage with stakeholders.
- Own and resolve complex cross-domain issues spanning infrastructure, networking, databases, and application code.
Requirements (Must-Have)
- 7+ years in platform engineering, site reliability, or DevOps roles.
- AWS proficiency: IAM, EKS, Route53, S3, SQS, EC2, and related services.
- Kubernetes expertise: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting workloads.
- Terraform expertise: infrastructure as code, reusable modules, workspaces, state migration.
- Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Proficiency with Linux, networking, and systems architecture.
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency with Git and modern software development workflows.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- Experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles).
- Multi-cloud exposure (Azure, GCP).
- Experience running self-hosted GitHub ARC runners in Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with platform-as-a-product practices.
Personal Attributes / Soft Skills
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
- Comfortable mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers.
- Effective problem-solving, analysis, and reasoning abilities.
- Detail-oriented with strong time management and organizational skills.
- Comfortable working in Agile environments and with pair programming.
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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years in platform engineering, site reliability, or DevOps roles
- AWS proficiency: IAM, EKS, Route53, S3, SQS, EC2
- Kubernetes expertise: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting workloads
- Terraform expertise: infrastructure as code, reusable modules
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Proficiency with Linux, networking, and systems architecture
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with Git and modern software development workflows
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The Company
What We Do
Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most. Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense and AP automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie. The company’s innovative offerings, which are uniquely tailored for specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 4.5 million users in more than 120 countries. Over 14,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Boot Barn, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, empower business travelers to recapture lost nights and weekends spent doing tedious expense management, and help make users’ lives -- and their businesses -- better.
