Site Reliability Engineer - 2

What You'll Do Building a fast moving, high growth service. Navan is revolutionizing travel and expense services for the enterprise, and the product is evolving quickly. You are comfortable in a startup environment, enjoy seeing the product take shape, and have strong ownership of the success of your services. Designing, implementing and operating cloud infrastructure . You’re a fit for us if you think in terms of infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and building the guardrails to make going fast also going safely. Identifying reliability anti-patterns and solving them systemically . You dive deep into the data to evaluate the health of your systems, and you use it to improve visibility and reliability across the fleet of services. Finding and automating the toil out of our processes . You’d prefer to automate it entirely, or build a tool to empower your users rather than be the gatekeeper to the tool. Leveraging AI tools and platforms in your daily work to achieve autonomous operations, reduce toil, and improve system observability. Contributing to the definition and adoption of system reliability standards, including formalizing SLO/SLI frameworks, observability standards, and blameless post‑mortem practices. Assisting in the adoption of AI‑assisted developer tools and platforms to increase engineering productivity, enforce code quality standards, and enable real‑time architectural validation. What We’re Looking For 2+ years of progressive experience as an SRE or equivalent role. Passionate about solving problems and learning new tools and technologies. Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems. Thrive in a fast‑paced environment. Demonstrated ability to contribute to and take ownership of technical infrastructure projects. Operate with a strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production‑quality code and infrastructure equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation. Hands‑on operational experience with Java based applications and services including JVM profiling and performance tuning (python, Node.js and Go are a plus). Hands‑on experience building and operating distributed systems in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS), using CI/CD to deploy, manage and operate production systems, focusing on tooling and automation using tools such as maven and Jenkins. Hands‑on experience with microservice architecture and related reliability and resiliency patterns such as throttling, queueing, and retries. Hands‑on experience with writing Infrastructure as Code in Terraform or Cloudformation or similar tools. A passion for automating away everything, using scripting languages such as python, bash, groovy (we prefer lazy engineers). Built, using, and automating monitoring systems such as NewRelic, DataDog, SignalFX, Kibana. Hands‑on experience deploying, operating, and monitoring production‑grade AI/ML microservices (e.g., RAG pipelines, agentic systems) on cloud platforms like AWS Fargate/ECS. Experience leveraging AI/LLM platforms (e.g., Gemini, Braintrust) and managing their secrets and infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and AWS SSM. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI‑specific telemetry and advanced observability practices to enable predictive insights and systemic root‑cause analysis. Pay Range $86,325 – $191,900 USD Benefits Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well‑being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family. We support long‑term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country‑specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support, mental health resources, and exclusive travel‑related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you. Equal Opportunity Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring. Accommodations Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Traveltechessentialist