Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Kubernetes, CI/CD, SRE

BlackLine Systems, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackLine is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to lead design, automation, and operational excellence of the service backbone powering our SaaS products.

You will architect Kubernetes-native systems, drive event-driven architectures with Kafka and Pub/Sub, and champion a security-first approach across the platform. Mentorship and cross-team collaboration are key parts of the role.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in engineering, platform, or SRE roles.
• Expert in at least one: Rust, C#, Python, Go, Java for platform engineering.
• Experience with container-targeted development: Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, App Engine.
• Hands-on with GCP/AWS in production at scale; core services like BigQuery, Pub/Sub.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven platforms (Kafka, Airflow, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for engineering platform service architecture and scalable cloud-native infra.
• Architect and develop Kubernetes-native systems and serverless sequences.
• Design and operate event-driven systems using Kafka and Pub/Sub.
• Champion security-first platform design across networking, containers, and monitoring.
• Establish observability with dashboards, sensors, and alerts for health and SLOs.
• Own CI/CD strategy and collaborate with teams on IaC and standards.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Event-driven design

SRE practices

Architectural leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

GCP

AWS

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

BlackLine is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to lead design, automation, and operational excellence of the service backbone powering our SaaS products.

You will architect Kubernetes-native systems, drive event-driven architectures with Kafka and Pub/Sub, and champion a security-first approach across the platform. Mentorship and cross-team collaboration are key parts of the role.