Software Engineer, Engineering Ops

Are you passionate about streamlining complex systems to enhance transparency and efficiency? Do you thrive in highly collaborative environments, where you work across teams to reduce toil and build operational resilience? Are you excited to contribute to an organization that values ownership, growth, and operational excellence?
If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Senior Engineer on the Engineering Operations team, you’ll focus on building and automating the operational foundation that keeps Ridgeline running efficiently, reliably, and transparently. This team owns incident response coordination, operational readiness, observability and telemetry, financial efficiency tooling (FinOps), and compliance frameworks. You’ll work across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure the systems we build are measurable, efficient, and easy to operate at scale.

This is a highly cross-functional role where you’ll collaborate with SRE and product engineers to improve visibility, reduce toil, and build confidence in the systems that power Ridgeline. You'll leverage cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT—to enhance automation and accelerate innovation.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture.
If this excites you, we’d love to meet you.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

The impact you will have:

• Design and implement automation for critical operational workflows, including tenant provisioning, patch coordination, and configuration health
• Drive incident response and post-incident improvement through runbooks, documentation, and root cause automation
• Lead the design and implementation of unified observability frameworks that span system health, financial metrics, and organizational effectiveness
• Build and maintain dashboards and telemetry pipelines that support FinOps cost optimization and policy compliance
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to define and track SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs across services
• Maintain Ridgeline’s disaster recovery documentation and lead regular DR exercises with measurable outcomes
• Define and manage system and service manifests that document ownership, dependencies, and operational metadata
• Contribute to shared operational libraries, templates, and standards that make integration easier across Ridgeline’s platform
• Collaborate with a diverse group of Ridgeliners to promote best practices in transparency, operational excellence, and continuous learning

What we look for:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering roles
• Strong background in operational automation using tools like Python, Go, or Bash
• Deep understanding of observability stacks such as Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
• Practical experience building FinOps dashboards, cost tagging strategies, and anomaly detection workflows
• Hands-on experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident process improvement
• Solid cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK
• Clear and concise communicator who can partner across engineering, product, and business teams
• Willingness to learn and adopt emerging technologies, including AI and automation tools
• Strong ownership mindset with a drive for continuous improvement

Bonus:

• Experience defining and running DR exercises and managing DR documentation
• Background in service catalog design or system metadata modeling
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and audit-readiness for SLA or cost reporting

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology. Powered by a single, real-time data set and embedded AI, Ridgeline helps firms automate complexity, accelerate collaboration, and deliver tailored client experiences at scale, without added headcount or risk. Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, and the Bay Area, and is recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by Frost & Sullivan as a “Technology Innovation Leader,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits 

The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $146,000-$172,000.

Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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