Principal Engineer Site Reliability Specialist

The Principal Engineer, SRE will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and operational excellence of Accounting and Finance platforms.

This role focuses on leading the operational health of our platforms, delivering highly reliable financial applications and data services that meet accuracy, compliance, and availability requirements supporting business operations.

As an Principle SRE, you will build automation, implement monitoring, improve incident response, and champion DevOps practices to enable Finance and Accounting systems to operate with consistency and trustworthiness. Additionally, you will coach and mentor junior SREs to ensure overall Operational Excellence.

• Operational Oversight: Own day-to-day operations for Accounting and Finance applications and data platforms, ensuring they run smoothly and meet business expectations.
• Reliability & Availability: Ensure Accounting and Finance platforms meet defined SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for performance, reliability, and uptime.
• Automation & Efficiency: Build automation for deployments, monitoring, scaling, and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging for accounting applications and data pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, dbt workflows, ERP integrations).
• Incident Response: Lead and participate in on-call rotations, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements to prevent recurrence of production issues.
• Operational Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and compliance controls in financial systems.
• Collaboration: Partner with software engineers, data engineers, and Finance/Accounting teams to ensure operational needs are met from development through production.
• Team Coordination: Manage workload, priorities, and escalations for operations staff and partner teams, ensuring alignment with SLAs and compliance requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure financial applications and data pipelines meet audit, compliance, and security requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive post-incident reviews, implement lessons learned, and proactively identify opportunities to improve system resilience.

• Education: Bachelor's in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 12-15 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering, ideally supporting financial or mission-critical applications.
• Monitoring Tools: Strong experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent).
• Automation Frameworks: Hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Financial Systems: Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, and financial system integrations from an operational support perspective.
• Scripting Languages: Strong scripting/programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Incident Response: Proven ability to manage incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Compliance: Experience ensuring compliance, security, and audit-readiness in enterprise applications.

• Automation,
• Operational Excellence,
• Snowflake,
• SQL,
• Data Engineering,
• Financial Systems

• Supporting Financial Applications: Experience supporting financial applications (ERP, revenue recognition systems, accounting platforms).
• FinOps Practices: Exposure to FinOps practices for optimizing cloud spend in finance-related platforms.
• Containerization: Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Resilience and Auditability: Experience building resilience into data pipelines and ensuring auditability for accounting data.
• Communication: Strong communication skills to articulate operational issues and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.