Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Tabs

Tabs

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jan 16, 2026

Location

New York City, NY

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • $200K – $250K • Offers Equity

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 help ensure Tabs’ platform is reliable, scalable, and ready for the next phase of growth. You’ll operate as a senior individual contributor, partnering with engineering and product teams to embed reliability into how systems are designed, built, and operated.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and systems problems, influencing architecture, and raising the reliability bar across an organization.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

  • Improve observability, alerting, and incident response across services

  • Lead high-severity incidents and drive meaningful post-incident improvements

  • Partner with engineers to design resilient, scalable systems

  • Build automation to reduce toil and operational risk
    Mentor engineers and influence best practices across teams

Who You Are

  • You think in systems and failure modes, not just tools

  • You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity and setting direction

  • You value learning from failure over blame

  • You balance pragmatism with long-term system health

  • You communicate clearly and influence through trust and expertise

Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering roles

  • Strong software engineering experience in one or more modern languages

  • Experience operating distributed systems in production at scale

  • Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, and CI/CD

Additional Information

This role is based in New York City at our Soho office.

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)

  • 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.

Compensation Range: $200K - $250K