--- title: 'Site Reliability Engineer II at Navan' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/site-reliability-engineer-ii-navan-palo-alto-60ayzg9j4vyg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-10' --- # Site Reliability Engineer II at Navan - **Company:** Navan - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Compensation:** $86k–$192k - **Posted:** 2026-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10 - **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8350952 ## Job description At Navan, “It’s all about the user. All of them.” We’re passionate about providing a seamless one-stop experience for business travelers, no matter how they travel, where they stay, or where they’re going. We are constantly striving to make the most reliable and scalable systems possible to ensure that our services are available to our travelers when they need it most. With our exponential growth, we have many exciting challenges ahead and we’re looking for a passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in the Palo Alto, CA office. As an SRE you will design and develop tooling, automation and infrastructure services that power the Navan services, used by thousands of travelers on a daily basis.  You will work closely with development teams, release and productivity teams and security teams to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions to solve them. You will work across a vast array of systems and technologies, aiming to build an autonomous, monitored, fault-tolerant infrastructure that is optimized for both simplicity and uptime. You will collaborate with the backend and frontend engineering teams to ensure that product solutions are scalable, efficient, and reliable. You will design infrastructure to support our massive growth and work with the team to maintain the highest level of service. 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: - You have 2+ years of progressive experience as an SRE or equivalent role. - You are passionate about solving problems and learning new tools and technologies, and you how to say “I don't know” - You have excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems - You are looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment - Demonstrated ability to contribute to and take ownership of technical infrastructure projects. - You operate with a strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code and infrastructure equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity. For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter. Pay Range $86,325—$191,900 USD Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application. - Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated. Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights. ## About Navan ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Navan is the leading all-in-one, AI-powered business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes corporate travel effortless for frequent travelers while giving finance teams full control. - **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: **NAVN**, listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in October 2025) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Corporate travel management, expense management, travel technology, payments. - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies; also SMBs. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make travel easy for every traveler by being the best travel agency on the planet." ## Products & Services - **Navan Travel**: AI-powered booking platform for flights, hotels, and ground transportation with extensive inventory access (including NDC content from 17+ airlines). - **Navan Expense**: Automated expense management that categorizes and reconciles receipts, with real-time policy enforcement and integration with ERPs. - **Navan Edge**: AI travel assistant (chat-based) that handles bookings and provides 24/7 human support. - **Navan Rewards**: Incentive program that rewards employees for booking below budget. - **Navan Connect (BYOC)**: Card-link technology that connects corporate cards from 250+ banks, enabling unified spend visibility. - **Navan Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual cards for payments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (post-IPO, real-time market cap available on exchanges). - **Key Metric**: **Total Headcount** ~3,300 employees (as of 2026); **Number of customers** – thousands, including major enterprises like Heineken, Unilever, Wayfair, and Zoom. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources, but strategic partners include Amadeus (dual-GDS model) and major airlines via NDC. - **Growth Signals**: Went public in October 2025; expanded globally through acquisitions of Comtravo (Germany), Resia (France), Tripeur (India), and Reed & MacKay (Europe); now operates 50 offices worldwide; first TMC to integrate AI across the entire platform. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-first platform**: First travel management company to embed AI across search, booking, expense reconciliation, and customer service. - **All-in-one T&E**: Combines travel, expense, and payments in a single system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. - **Dual-GDS model**: Integrated with both Sabre and Amadeus, providing global coverage and competitive pricing. - **NDC leader**: Offers access to 17 airlines’ New Distribution Capability content for better fares and inventory. ## Strategic Focus - Continue leading in AI-powered travel and expense innovation. - Expand corporate card and payments ecosystem (Navan Connect, external card linking). - Deepen enterprise capabilities and global footprint (targeting mid-market and large multinationals). - Drive user adoption through employee rewards and seamless mobile experience. ## Why Work Here - **Work model**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in office (Palo Alto HQ and other global offices). Strong emphasis on in-person collaboration. - **Culture**: Meritocratic, high-ownership, “high-talent density” environment. Values include extreme ownership, bias to action, “AI-first mindset”, and “seriously fun”. - **Perks & Benefits**: - Flexible vacation (take time off as needed, manager coordination). - Paid parental leave (16 weeks birthing parent, 10 weeks non-birthing). - 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discount. - Medical, dental, vision, pet insurance. - Commuter benefits, in-office snacks and lunches, dog-friendly offices. - Headspace mental health subscription. - Navan personal travel discounts (employee leisure bookings at corporate rates). - Connectivity allowance (bi-weekly stipend for remote work). - **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling public company; teams across engineering, product, data science, travel operations, and R&D. ## Sources 1. [navan.com](https://navan.com/ – Product overview, platform details) 2. [navan.com/about](https://navan.com/about – Company history, mission, timeline, IPO) 3. [navan.com/careers](https://navan.com/careers – Culture, values, benefits, work model) 4. 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