Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (Open Cloud)

Backblaze; United States; Remote; USD 175.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Healthcare for family

401K

RSU grants

ESPP program

Flexible vacation policy

Maternity & paternity leave

MacBook Pro for work

Commuter benefits

Work-life balance culture

Zusammenfassung

Backblaze is seeking a senior backend engineer to help shape the data infrastructure powering B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup. You will scale automation, improve observability, and drive architectural changes to support long-term service needs.

You will design and extend automation frameworks, dashboards, and tooling to detect issues before they become incidents, working across multiple services and teams. A strong Linux background and experience with large-scale systems are essential.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of backend development in an enterprise environment.
• Experience designing automation frameworks or platforms used by other engineers.
• Experience building large-scale software 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/hybrid environments.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code).
• Ability to design, implement, and rollout complex software across services.

Aufgaben

• Design and build automation frameworks enabling fleet provisioning, configuration, and repair.
• Extend the observability stack with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for fleet health.
• Create dashboards and visualizations for health, capacity, and trends.
• Develop health tooling to detect failing hardware, config drift, and capacity risks.
• Lead design discussions and produce clear docs for cross-team changes.
• Drive large features from design to rollout, including migrations and backfill tasks.
• Collaborate with on-call rotation to automate toil and improve signals.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Automation frameworks design

Observability stack

Linux fundamentals

AI-assisted development

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Datadog

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Backblaze is seeking a senior backend engineer to help shape the data infrastructure powering B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup. You will scale automation, improve observability, and drive architectural changes to support long-term service needs.

You will design and extend automation frameworks, dashboards, and tooling to detect issues before they become incidents, working across multiple services and teams. A strong Linux background and experience with large-scale systems are essential.