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Site Reliability Engineer III (SRE III)
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Posted:
16 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
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Application Deadline:
13 August 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Who We Are:
At Emburse youll not just imagine the future youll 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.
The Site Reliability Engineer III (SRE III) plays a critical role in ensuring Emburses systems are highly available scalable and performant. This role blends deep technical expertise with strong collaboration and leadership skills to drive operational excellence across distributed systems. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation cloud infrastructure observability and continuous improvement while mentoring junior engineers and driving reliability culture across the organization
What you will do :
Service Reliability & Performance
- Proactively identify evaluate and implement preventative measures to reduce customer impact.
- Ensure all services are designed and operated with 24/7 availability scalability and resilience in mind.
- Monitor troubleshoot and provide visibility to improve site latency performance and uptime.
Engineering Excellence & Automation
- Design develop and automate reliable cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles to manage large-scale distributed systems.
- Write and maintain scripts tools and automation frameworks to support operational efficiency.
- Partner with engineering leadership to develop solutions enabling developer productivity and remove cross functional dependencies.
Collaboration & Process Development
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams on project definitions requirements backlog grooming and planning processes.
- Align operational goals with product and engineering roadmaps to ensure reliability requirements are met early in the lifecycle.
- Define non-functional requirements (NFRs) and influence standards for scalability observability and fault tolerance.
- Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues spanning applications infrastructure databases and networks.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Serve as a technical mentor to SRE I and II engineers guiding them in best practices for reliability automation and incident management.
- Lead root cause analysis and postmortem reviews driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support offshore and distributed teams promoting effective collaboration and communication.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews offering technical recommendations and documentation for key stakeholders
What we are looking for :
Education:
- Required: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a STEM field
Experience:
- Minimum 6 years of experience in an engineering or operations role with a focus on reliability scalability and automation.
Certifications:
- Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or AWS Certification
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Linux-based distributed environments (up to 70% hands-on work).
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
- Excellent scripting skills (Python Bash Powershell); object-oriented programming experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain internal tools and automation solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong project management and organizational abilities with a bias for action.
- Experience collaborating with offshore or globally distributed teams.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes).
- Experience with Kubernetes scaling tooling (Karpenter KEDA).
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
- Familiarity with self-healing systems and site reliability best practices.
- Background in SaaS environments or large-scale distributed applications.
- Analytical thinker with a focus on root-cause problem solving.
- Self-starter with a strong ownership mentality and accountability.
- Mentor and collaborator who uplifts teams and promotes learning culture.
- Committed to operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Why Emburse
Finance is changingand at Emburse were leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies gain real-time visibility and optimize spendso they can focus on whats next not whats 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 whats 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 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.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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About Company
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