The Role
Drive platform reliability, scalability, and performance through observability, monitoring, incident response, infrastructure automation, and deployment improvements. Diagnose distributed-system production issues, optimize cost and performance, strengthen system consistency, document operational processes, and lead post-incident reviews. Collaborate with engineering, platform, security, AI, and product teams while advancing SRE practices and reliability initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
- Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
- Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
- Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.
The Impact of a Site Reliability Engineer at Coupa:
In this role, you'll drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform, ensuring our systems remain stable as we grow. We value innovation and are seeking someone eager to bring fresh ideas – especially around building automation that reduces manual effort and improving distributed systems resilience.
This isn't a top-down organization; our engineers are the ones who flag technical challenges and design the solutions. You will collaborate closely with Platform Engineering, Security, AI Platform, and Product teams to design durable systems and make data-driven operational decisions.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with Engineering, Platform, and Security teams to embed SRE best practices early in system design.
- Lead advancements in observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response workflows.
- Analyze platform performance to contribute to cost-optimization, performance tuning, and resilience planning.
- Build infrastructure and automation tooling that improves platform reliability and enhances deployment safety.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems, and drive open post-incident reviews so failures translate into durable improvements.
- Strengthen system consistency and author clear, concise documentation for runbooks and operational processes.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or similar production-facing roles.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems to maintain higher platform stability.
- Eager to share operational guidelines, champion SRE practices across teams, and openly discuss what we can learn from system failures.
- Excellent communication skills (English is our default language) with a genuine, collaborative approach to working across diverse engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or similar) and proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes (or container orchestration), event-driven architectures, or supporting ML/AI workloads and GPU infrastructure.
What Success Looks Like:
Within 3 Months:
- Fully onboarded into the Rossum ecosystem, gaining a deep understanding of our infrastructure, observability stack, and SRE processes while building relationships across the team.
- Gaining a deep understanding of our synergy with Coupa and our shared roadmap.
- Initial Impact Goal: Improve a small reliability issue or add value to an existing automation or monitoring area.
Within 6 Months:
- Independently managing key responsibilities, owning recurring reliability tasks, and identifying areas for strategic improvement.
- Actively participating in the alignment of processes within the new Coupa organizational structure.
- Operational KPI: Implement measurable enhancements to alert quality, CI/CD reliability, or service health metrics.
Within 12 Months:
- Recognized as a subject matter expert within the team, navigating the global Coupa ecosystem.
- Successfully contributing to Rossum's mission at a massive scale using new global resources.
- Long-Term Strategic Goal: Lead a major reliability or infrastructure initiative, providing technical recommendations to guide our long-term reliability strategy.
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
At Coupa, we are 100% committed to creating and nurturing an environment that supports your physical, mental, and community well-being. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help you and your family thrive:
Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
- Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together .
- Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month .
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about .
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents .
- Business Travel Protection: Travel with peace of mind. Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during any business travel .
- Referral Bonus Program: Share the Coupa experience! Receive generous monetary referral bonuses when you successfully refer talented friends or acquaintances who are hired into open roles .
Please note: In addition to these global well-being perks, Coupa offers highly competitive, location-specific benefits packages (which include comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection) tailored to your primary work location. Your recruiter will walk you through the specific regional benefits package for this role during the interview process.
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or similar production-facing roles
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems
- Ability to share operational guidelines and champion SRE practices
- Excellent English communication and collaboration skills
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Experience supporting ML/AI workloads and GPU infrastructure
What the Team is Saying
Aditya Maheshwari
Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud
Alex Moon
Operations Analyst, Order Management
Jose Miguel Jimenez
Procurement
Jessica Fonseca
Technical Support Specialist
Daniela Aristizábal
Associate Planning & Operations Analyst
Coupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents starting Day 1, and plan quality is often characterized as good to very good. Mental‑health and employee‑assistance resources further bolster the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited-style time off, floating holidays, and 40 hours of paid volunteer time are highlighted across locations. These policies are frequently cited alongside strong overall PTO usability depending on role and workload.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-support resources (e.g., adoption, surrogacy, and back-to-work assistance) are explicitly included. Recent examples reference multi‑month leave durations for new parents.
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The Company
What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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