Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer · Staff · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Tabs is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead infrastructure evolution and platform reliability for their AI-native revenue platform. The ideal candidate will be a senior technical leader who can design scalable systems, improve observability, and drive operational excellence across a high-growth technology startup.
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Management: Lead AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including migration from ECS/Fargate to more scalable runtime environments
- DevOps Excellence: Enhance CI/CD systems with focus on developer experience, safety, and advanced automation
- Reliability Engineering: Define and evolve reliability standards, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budget management
- Incident Response: Manage high-severity incidents, conduct thorough postmortems, and drive actionable improvements
- System Design: Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable, and observable distributed systems
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Cloud Infrastructure
Extensive experience managing production systems on AWS with platform-level change leadership
Programming Languages
Strong software engineering skills in modern programming languages
Distributed Systems
Proven expertise operating distributed systems at production scale
Education
Technical Degree
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred
Experience
Professional Experience
10+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering roles
System Thinking
Demonstrated ability to analyze systems holistically, considering risk, rollback strategies, and feedback loops
Skills
Required
AWS
Advanced cloud infrastructure management and architecture skills
CI/CD
Expertise in continuous integration and deployment systems
Observability
Deep understanding of monitoring, logging, and tracing technologies
Preferred
Incident Management
Nice to haveExperience with structured incident response and postmortem methodologies
System Design
Nice to haveStrong skills in designing scalable, resilient distributed systems
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 200,000 – 250,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Healthcare
100% employer-covered monthly healthcare premium including medical, dental, and vision
Equity
Competitive compensation package with stock options
Time Off
Unlimited PTO with up to 12 weeks parental leave
Retirement
401k retirement savings plan
Wellness
Free One Medical Membership and Employee Assistance Program
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screening
Phone or video call with recruiter to discuss background and role fit
- 02
Technical Assessment
Comprehensive technical evaluation of SRE and systems design skills
- 03
Onsite/Virtual Interviews
Multiple interview rounds covering technical expertise, system design, and cultural alignment
- 04
Final Interview
Meeting with engineering leadership to discuss role expectations and team integration
Full posting
Original listing.
Tabs is the leading AI-native revenue platform for modern finance and accounting teams. Tabs agents automates the entire contract-to-cash lifecycle, including billing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting, to help teams eliminate manual work and accelerate cash flow.
High-growth companies like Cursor and Statsig rely on Tabs to generate invoices directly from contracts, reconcile payments in real time, and automate ASC 606 compliance.
Founded in 2023, Tabs has raised over $91 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Primary. The team is headquartered in New York and brings deep expertise in finance and AI.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead the evolution of Tabs’ platform as we scale. In this role, you’ll operate as a senior individual contributor, partnering closely with engineering and product teams to design, build, and operate systems that are reliable, observable, and easy to develop on.
You’ll own our infrastructure direction, shape how we ship software, and set the standard for operational excellence across the company. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems, influencing architecture, and raising the reliability bar without becoming a gatekeeper.
What You’ll Own
AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including the migration from ECS/Fargate toward a more modern, scalable runtime
CI/CD systems with a strong emphasis on developer experience, safety, and automation (GitHub Actions today; maturing CD tomorrow)
Ephemeral environments and preview deploys to speed iteration and increase confidence in changes
Observability standards across metrics, logs, and tracing, including alert hygiene, dashboards, and SLO development
Incident response, postmortems, and the reliability culture that surrounds them
What You’ll Do
Define and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Improve observability, alerting, and incident processes across services
Lead high-severity incidents and drive clear, actionable follow-ups
Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable systems
Build automation to reduce toil and lower operational risk
Mentor engineers and influence best practices across teams
Who You Are
You’ve run production systems on AWS and can lead platform-level change
You think in systems: risk, rollback strategy, blast radius, and feedback loops
You treat CI/CD and environments as products that should be fast, reliable, and self-serve
You influence through trust and clarity rather than control
You balance pragmatism with long-term system health
You value learning from failure and improving processes over assigning blame
You communicate clearly and work well across teams
Experience
10+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering roles
Strong software engineering experience in one or more modern languages
Expertise operating distributed systems in production at scale
Deep experience with AWS, observability tooling, and CI/CD systems
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and setting direction in a fast-moving environment
Additional Information
This role is based onsite in our Soho office in New York City.
Perks and Benefits (Full-time Employees)
Competitive compensation and equity
Unlimited PTO
Up to 100% employer covered monthly healthcare premium (medical, dental, vision)
Lunch provided via Sharebite, plus dinner for any later office days.
Parental leave up to 12 weeks
Tax free commuter and parking benefits
Voluntary insurances (Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, Accident)
Employee Assistance Program (Rightway)
Free One Medical Membership
401k
Tabs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome teammates of all identities and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can grow, contribute, and feel comfortable being themselves.
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