TripActions LiquidTM is an expense and corporate card solution that eliminates the hassles of expense management while giving finance leaders real-time spend visibility and control. TripActions Liquid provides employees with a refreshingly easy way to pay for what they need while giving finance leaders one easy place to control, manage, and track spend. With physical and virtual cards, smart policy management, and automated expense reports, TripActions Liquid streamlines the entire business spending process — driving cost-savings, productivity, and compliance.

In October 2021, TripActions announced its Series F funding of $275M at a post-money upround valuation of $7.25B to help accelerate future growth plans. In April 2021, TripActions and Visa announced an expanded strategic partnership. Through the new partnership with Visa, TripActions will accelerate the growth of its next-generation corporate card offering, increasing access to flexible payment methods with built-in policy controls.

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We are looking for a passionate Site Reliability Engineer to design and develop the tooling, automation and infrastructure services that power the TripActions Liquid app used by thousands of travelers on a daily basis. You will work most closely with the Liquid engineering team, and will have many friendly peers and cross-functional partners in the Amsterdam and Palo Alto offices to see and work with regularly.  

What You'll Do:

Building a fast moving, high growth service.  TripActions Liquid is revolutionizing expenses, and the product is evolving quickly.  You are comfortable in a startup environment, enjoy seeing the product take shape, and have strong ownership of the success of your services.

Designing, implementing and operating cloud infrastructure.  You’re a fit for us if you think in terms of infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and building the guardrails to make going fast also going safely. 

Identifying reliability anti-patterns and solving them systemically.  You dive deep into the data to evaluate the health of your systems, and you use it to improve visibility and reliability across the fleet of services.  

Finding and automating the toil out of our processes.  You’d prefer to automate it entirely, or build a tool to empower your users rather than be the gatekeeper to the tool.  

What We’re Looking For:

• Have 5+ years of experience as an SRE (or Infrastructure Software Engineer, or DevOps Engineer)
• Are passionate about solving problems and learning new tools and technologies
• Have excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
• Looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment 
• Operate with a strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code and infrastructure equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation

We want you because you can teach new ways to solve problems and you have  

• Experience with Java based applications and services including jvm profiling and performance tuning
• Experience building and operating distributed systems in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS), using CI/CD to deploy, manage and operate production systems, focusing on tooling and automation using tools such as maven and Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with microservice architecture and related reliability and resiliency patterns such as throttling, queueing, and retries
• Hands-on experience with writing Infrastructure as Code in Terraform or Cloudformation or similar tools
• A passion for automating away everything, using scripting languages such as python, bash groovy
• Built, using, and automating monitoring systems such as SignalFX, Kibana, Grafana
• Hands-on experience database experience with RDS (mysql), couchbase and/or elasticsearch