Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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 RoleWe’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 OwnAWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including the migration from ECS/Fargate toward a more modern, scalable runtimeCI/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 changesObservability standards across metrics, logs, and tracing, including alert hygiene, dashboards, and SLO developmentIncident response, postmortems, and the reliability culture that surrounds themWhat You’ll DoDefine and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgetsImprove observability, alerting, and incident processes across servicesLead high-severity incidents and drive clear, actionable follow-upsPartner with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable systemsBuild automation to reduce toil and lower operational riskMentor engineers and influence best practices across teamsWho You AreYou’ve run production systems on AWS and can lead platform-level changeYou think in systems: risk, rollback strategy, blast radius, and feedback loopsYou treat CI/CD and environments as products that should be fast, reliable, and self-serveYou influence through trust and clarity rather than controlYou balance pragmatism with long-term system healthYou value learning from failure and improving processes over assigning blameYou communicate clearly and work well across teamsExperience10+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering rolesStrong software engineering experience in one or more modern languagesExpertise operating distributed systems in production at scaleDeep experience with AWS, observability tooling, and CI/CD systemsComfortable navigating ambiguity and setting direction in a fast-moving environmentAdditional InformationThis role is based onsite in our Soho office in New York City.Perks And Benefits (Full-time Employees)Competitive compensation and equityUnlimited PTOUp 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 weeksTax free commuter and parking benefitsVoluntary insurances (Life, Hospital, Critical Illness, Accident)Employee Assistance Program (Rightway)Free One Medical Membership401kTabs 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.Compensation Range: $200K - $250K