Staff Engineer, DevOps

FloQast • San Jose, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

FloQast is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to guide the technical direction, architecture, and reliability of its secure, scalable, high-performance SaaS platform. The role involves leading complex engineering work, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical strategy, with a focus on reliable cloud-native systems and challenges spanning multiple teams. The position is hybrid, with three days per week in the San Jose office.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role, with a track record of driving large-scale, high-impact projects.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly container orchestration such as Kubernetes or ECS, and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Expertise implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including tools such as Grafana, Coralogix, AWS CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL).
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub and building and managing advanced automation pipelines.
• Solid understanding of advanced AWS networking, security, and infrastructure concepts.
• Expertise in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously, take initiative, and solve ambiguous, high-level problems.
• Analytical thinker with strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to lead root-cause analysis and problem-solving efforts.
• Enjoys guiding and upskilling other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural enhancements, designs, and integration solutions across the platform using serverless and containerization technologies.
• Design and build reliable systems that meet high standards for durability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
• Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and establish proactive alerting and real-time dashboards for system health.
• Work with the developer experience team to develop and evolve CI/CD workflows and automate tasks across the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers and promote best practices, including test-driven development and automated testing.
• Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and other teams to identify and address complex technical challenges with company-wide impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed