Senior Data Infra Engineer - Automation & Observability

Backblaze External Website; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare for family

Competitive compensation and 401K

RSU grants for full-time employees

ESPP program

Flexible vacation policy

Maternity & paternity leave

MacBook Pro + workstation stipend

Childcare bonus

Fertility treatment and support

Learning & development program

Commuter benefits

Culture that supports a healthy work‑l

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to advance automation, observability, and reliability for its data infrastructure powering Backblaze B2 and backup services.

You will design automation frameworks, extend the observability stack, and lead feature implementations for large-scale fleet deployments across thousands of servers. Strong Linux skills and AI-assisted tooling experience are valued.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development in an enterprise environment using OO or systems languages (Java, Rust, C++, C#, Go).
• Experience designing automation frameworks or platforms used by other engineers.
• Experience building large-scale software systems on thousands of servers.
• Experience building automation or tooling relied on daily by engineers.
• Working knowledge of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog).
• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort with bare-metal or hybrid environments.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar).
• Comfort with all phases of the software lifecycle: design, implement, test, rollout.
• Curiosity and desire to understand before proposing solutions.
• Proactive communication in remote teams; surface blockers early.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation frameworks that let engineers provision, configure, and repair fleet infrastructure themselves.
• Extend the observability stack with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to monitor health and degradation.
• Create dashboards and visualizations for fleet health, capacity, and trends for engineers and leadership.
• Build health tooling to detect hardware failures, config drift, and capacity risk before incidents.
• Lead technical design discussions and produce clear design documents for multi-service changes.
• Drive large feature implementations from design through rollout, including migrations and backfills.
• Collaborate with on-call rotation to convert toil and incident findings into automation.

Skills

Backend development

Automation frameworks

Observability

Linux fundamentals

Remote collaboration

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Datadog

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to advance automation, observability, and reliability for its data infrastructure powering Backblaze B2 and backup services.

You will design automation frameworks, extend the observability stack, and lead feature implementations for large-scale fleet deployments across thousands of servers. Strong Linux skills and AI-assisted tooling experience are valued.