Senior Data Infra Engineer — Scalable Open-Cloud Platform

WebHosting; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP program

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure to advance our scalable data platform that underpins Backblaze B2 and backup services. You will design automation, improve observability, and drive architectures for durability and throughput.

Collaborate across teams to implement large features, build health tooling, dashboards, and migration work. This role requires strong systems expertise and proactive reliability in a fast-growing storage cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation frameworks that let other engineers provision, configure, and repair fleet infrastructure themselves
• Design and extend the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerts) that tells us whether the storage platform is healthy and where it is degrading
• Build reporting, dashboards, and visualizations that give engineering and leadership a clear view into fleet health, capacity, and operational trends
• Build system health tooling that detects failing hardware, drifting configuration, and capacity risk before they turn into incidents
• Lead technical design discussions and produce clear design documents for changes that span multiple services and teams
• Drive the implementation of large features from design through rollout, including the migration and backfill work that real systems require
• Partner with the on-call rotation to turn recurring toil and incident findings into automation and better signal

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure to advance our scalable data platform that underpins Backblaze B2 and backup services. You will design automation, improve observability, and drive architectures for durability and throughput.

Collaborate across teams to implement large features, build health tooling, dashboards, and migration work. This role requires strong systems expertise and proactive reliability in a fast-growing storage cloud.