Senior Observability Architect — AI-Driven SRE Leader

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 178,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking an senior individual contributor to own the observability platform—defining metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboards across data centers. You will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and advance AI-enabled operations for scalable, visible infrastructure.

You will shape design, runbooks, and documentation, collaborating across SRE, Storage, and Network Engineering to raise the technical bar and ensure reliable, auditable telemetry at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability role.
• Proven experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics or equivalent at scale.
• Proficient in Python and/or Go for automation.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for observability across the organization.
• Mentor engineers on the Observability team.
• Lead design reviews for observability work.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions for observability and AIOps.
• Produce design docs, runbooks, and architectural decision records.

Skills

Observability leadership

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

Design docs

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Logstash

Filebeat

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

Backblaze is seeking an senior individual contributor to own the observability platform—defining metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboards across data centers. You will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and advance AI-enabled operations for scalable, visible infrastructure.

You will shape design, runbooks, and documentation, collaborating across SRE, Storage, and Network Engineering to raise the technical bar and ensure reliable, auditable telemetry at scale.