The Role
The Staff DevOps Engineer will lead the architectural direction and reliability of FloQast's SaaS platform, mentor engineers, and solve complex engineering challenges. Responsibilities include enhancing system reliability, establishing CI/CD workflows, and collaborating across teams to address technical challenges.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
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 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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Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Expertise in monitoring and observability solutions
- Proven experience with CI/CD tools
- Strong understanding of AWS networking and security
- Experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
- Self-motivated and capable of independent leadership
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FloQast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, with multiple medical plan options (some fully employer‑paid) alongside employer‑paid life and disability and access to therapy. Dental and vision are often described as fully covered, adding tangible value to total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Family‑forming support and paid parental leave (e.g., 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non‑birthing) are highlighted, plus a subsidized SNOO bassinet. These offerings provide meaningful support for growing families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO combined with company‑wide Catch‑Up Days and generous sick time creates additional recharge opportunities. Time‑off policies are emphasized across job materials and benefits overviews.
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The Company
What We Do
By automating and streamlining common accounting workflows to make them more efficient, FloQast is where accounting teams want to work so they can focus on what matters most, even when that’s just logging off on time. Whether automating reconciliations, documentation requests, or streamlining recurring accounting processes, such as the month-end close, financial reporting, or payroll, FloQast's platform enhances the way accounting teams already work to help them operate more efficiently.
Why Work With Us
Our cloud-based, AI-enhanced software is trusted by more than 3,000 accounting teams, including those at Twilio, Gong, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors - and still growing! We aspire to forever elevate accounting and improve both the practice and perceptions of the profession.
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Employees work remotely.
FloQast's Employee Choice policy allows employees to choose to be hybrid or remote!
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