DevOps Engineer, Emburse
Spend optimization platform
Open for applications
Spend optimization platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize work by empowering employees, approvers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in platform engineering, site reliability, or DevOps roles
- AWS proficiency: IAM, EKS, Route53, S3, SQS, EC2, and related services
- Kubernetes expertise: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting workloads
- Terraform expertise: infrastructure as code, reusable modules, workspaces, state migration
- Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Proficiency with Linux, networking, and systems architecture
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with Git and modern software development workflows
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
- Comfortable mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers
- Effective problem-solving, analysis, and reasoning abilities
- Detail-oriented with strong time management and organizational skills
- Comfortable working in Agile environments and with pair programming
Desirable
- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles)
- Multi-cloud exposure (Azure, GCP)
- Experience running self-hosted GitHub ARC runners in Kubernetes
- Familiarity with platform-as-a-product practices
What the job involves
- Our Platform Engineering group builds the foundation that every Emburse product team relies on. We deliver secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automation that makes deployments faster, safer, and more reliable. If you love working with modern tools, scaling Kubernetes, and shaping world-class CI/CD practices, you’ll thrive here
- We are seeking a Senior / Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate Emburse’s cloud-based developer platform. In this role, you will own complex technical challenges across infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud-native operations while mentoring others and helping shape platform-as-a-product initiatives that support every Emburse engineering team
- Build and scale AWS infrastructure with Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management, automated pipelines)
- Design and automate CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, creating reusable pipelines and standardizing release practices
- Operate Kubernetes clusters at scale (EKS, AKS, GKE) — deploying services, troubleshooting, and maintaining system health
- Implement resilience and reliability features such as autoscaling, load balancing, observability, monitoring, and alerting
- Drive incident response and prevention: participate in on-call rotations, run post-incident reviews, and continuously improve stability
- Mentor teammates on cloud automation and platform engineering best practices
- Collaborate across the engineering lifecycle: provide feedback in design/code reviews, document key decisions, and engage with stakeholders
- Own and resolve complex cross-domain issues spanning infrastructure, networking, databases, and application code
Our take
Keeping track of spend is a vital capability for businesses - one that has been complicated by the switch to digital payments, an increase in remote working, and inflation, among other things. Emburse supplies a platform to manage and optimize spend, that removes the need for manual processes, speeding them up whilst keeping them compliant and delivering insights into spend trends.
Emburse's platform covers travel, employee and centralized spend, with a range of capabilities including automated purchasing, technology assisted human audit, and smart data reporting. Upwards of 18,000 organizations make use of the company's offering, with notable clients including Microsoft and Bosch, and it has been recognized as an industry leader - all boding well for its future.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2016
$0.2m
SEED
Mar 2016
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.5m
Company benefits
- Keep work and life balanced with generous paid time off for every employee and flexible work schedules
- Every employee can volunteer for a cause that matters to them, because enriching the community matters
- New parents receive paid leave so they can focus on bonding with a new addition to their happy family
- We have medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans that can fit any family size and lifestyle—including health savings accounts (HSA)
- We offer a generous match to pre- or post-tax retirement savings accounts so employees can worry less about the future—plus expert legal planning services for trusts, wills and more. We also offer financial planning services
- Our pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) helps to pay for approved medical expenses, plus a transit benefit to ease the costs of commuting
- What’s the purpose of living without a little fun? Our offices have quarterly outings, a delicious supply of snacks and beverages, along with Friday get-togethers to build a strong community at work
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Marne Martin
(CEO)Non Executive Board Member at Riskonnect. Former CSOP and President of IFS, and CEO at WorkWave.
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