Principal Engineer, SRE - Accounting Tech
About the Role:
The Principal Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE) will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and operational excellence of Accounting and Finance platforms. This role is focused on leading the operational health of our platforms, ensuring we are delivering highly reliable financial applications and data services, which meet the demanding requirements of accuracy, compliance, and availability that support business operations.
As an Principal SRE, you will build automation, implement monitoring, improve incident response, and champion DevOps practices that enable Finance and Accounting systems to operate with consistency and trustworthiness, along with coach and mentor junior SREs to ensure overall Operational Excellence.
What You Will Do:
Operational Oversight: Own day-to-day operations for Accounting and Finance applications and data platforms, ensuring they run smoothly and meet business expectations.
Reliability & Availability: Ensure Accounting and Finance platforms meet defined SLAs, SLOs,



and SLIs for performance, reliability, and uptime.
Automation & Efficiency: Build automation for deployments, monitoring, scaling, and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
Observability & Monitoring: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging for accounting applications and data pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, dbt workflows, ERP integrations).
Incident Response: Lead and participate in on-call rotations, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements to prevent recurrence of production issues.
Operational Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and compliance controls in financial systems.
Collaboration with Engineering & Finance: Partner with software engineers, data engineers, and Finance/Accounting teams to ensure operational needs are met from develo

📌 Princpal Engineer, Sre Hyderabad (India)
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📍 India