Site Reliability Engineer lll
On-site Barcelona Full-time Mid-level Site Reliability
At a glance
Mid-level Site Reliability role at Emburse. Barcelona · full-time.
Pay not stated Site Reliability salary
RoleSite Reliability
SeniorityMid-level
LocationBarcelona
WorkplaceOn-site
EmploymentFull-time
PostedSep 15, 2026 · 5w ago
Role brief
devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Keep services within their reliability targets and error budget while meeting service-level agreements
- Find and put preventive fixes in place to protect customer experience, availability, performance and security
- Automate cloud applications and build shared platform services with engineering and cloud operations leaders
- Set resilience requirements for new designs and resolve difficult issues spanning code, databases, networks and infrastructure
- Plan operational work against product roadmaps, document recommendations, support deployments and coach junior SREs
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a STEM discipline, plus at least seven years in engineering
- Strong Kubernetes skills and hands-on scripting experience in a distributed Linux environment
- Experience with infrastructure as code, SaaS delivery and observability, plus strong troubleshooting ability
- Clear written and spoken English for technical documents and work across teams
Who this fits
This Barcelona-based onsite role suits an experienced, hands-on engineer comfortable with distributed Linux systems; the listing says as much as seventy percent of the work is hands-on. You’ll also mentor more junior SREs and coordinate operational priorities across engineering, product and cloud teams.
From the employer
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.
Develop software and software fixes to integrate internal systems. Ensure code quality, test and distribute code updates, and monitor the health and stability of the servers.
Develop software and software fixes to integrate internal systems. Ensure code quality, test and distribute code updates, and monitor the health and stability of the servers.
What you'll do:
- Meet and beat Key Performance Indicators, SLAs, maintain an error budget and adhere to it.
- Identify, evaluate, and execute preventative measures to minimize and avoid impact to the customer experience
- Employ deep troubleshooting skills to improve the availability, performance, and security for CR and Emburse, ensure services are designed with 24/7 availability and operational readiness and rigor
- Coding and Automation of Applications on Cloud Platforms
- Work with Engineering leadership to build shared services that meet the requirements and need of the platform and application teams
- Work with Cloud Platform and Operations leaders to develop narratives, backlog grooming, epic planning and overall sprint planning processes
- Ensure the platform holds a high degree of reliability, at least four 9s.
- Define non-functional requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs, standards, and methods for scalable, highly available distributed systems
- Own technically intricate issues that cross between DevOps, Databases, Networking, Code, Infrastructure and people; drive them to satisfactory completion.
- Work closely with product different stakeholders to align Operational priorities and planning with the product and engineering roadmap
- Prepare and present engineering related documents to key stakeholders
- Provide recommendations and feedback in review sessions, design reviews and review sessions.
- Mentor SRE I and II’s
- Assist guiding more junior engineers in best practices
- Conduct and assist with investigation, test and deployment activities, identify and mitigate risks in development activities
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM field required
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in an engineering role required
- Deep understanding of infrastructure as code, scripting, self-healing, containers, DevOps tooling, distributed systems higly desired
- Strong Kubernetes experience
- Observability background
- Preferred AWS with optional Azure Cloud experience
- Experience working with Ansible and Terraform tools hightly desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in English
- Experience with full lifecycle of SaaS implementations as well as Infrastructure as code
- Excellent follow-up and project management skills
- Proven ability to create and maintain new tools
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Excellent technical skills. Up to 70% of the job is hands on in a distributed Linux environment
- Strong scripting skills. OOP is a plus
- Liaise between other teams to help prioritize and align priorities
- Experience working with an off shore team