TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (DevOps): Responsible for elevating engineering productivity by designing, standardizing, and evolving CI/CD platforms and infrastructure workflows with an accent on modern CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code using Terraform. Focus on defining standards, reducing friction in the software delivery lifecycle, and creating self-service infrastructure patterns that scale across teams.

Location: Hybrid in San Jose, California

Salary: $164,000 - $246,000

Company

FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants.

What you will do

  • Define and execute the long-term strategy for CI/CD across the organization, with primary ownership of our GitHub Actions ecosystem.
  • Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure modules and patterns built in Terraform.
  • Instrument the software development lifecycle and use data to drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, failure rates, and recovery time.
  • Set CI/CD and infrastructure standards across multiple product lines.
  • Embed observability, testing, and rollback strategies directly into pipelines.
  • Mentor senior engineers and DevOps practitioners in CI/CD architecture and infrastructure as code.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience spanning software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with CI/CD systems, especially GitHub Actions (enterprise-scale implementation preferred).
  • Strong experience building scalable infrastructure using Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, policy integration).
  • Strong experience working within the AWS ecosystem (e.g., VPC, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
  • Experience designing secure, scalable pipeline architectures (artifact management, secrets handling, OIDC, ephemeral environments).
  • Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or domains.

Nice to have

  • AI-first thinking applied to pipeline optimization, incident analysis, and developer feedback loops.
  • Strong experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools (e.g CloudWatch, Grafana)

Culture & Benefits

  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Family Forming benefits.
  • FloQast values our Total Rewards.