Senior Observability Architect & Infra Automation Leader

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

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Remote, full-time Senior Infrastructure leader to own architectural direction for observability across data centers. You will guide metrics, logs, and traces, mentor teams, and drive automation with AI-powered approaches for scalable infrastructure.

This senior IC role requires deep distributed systems and cross-team collaboration. You will own metrics pipelines (VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus), logging (OpenSearch, Logstash, Filebeat), tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry), and

Qualifications

• Senior-level observability and infra ownership.
• Experience shaping metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards across multi-cluster environments.
• Strong collaboration with SRE, Storage, and Network teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for observability across the organization, including instrumentation, alerts, and dashboards.
• Mentor engineers on the Observability team and act as a resource for several engineering domains.
• Lead design reviews for observability work and represent the team in cross-functional discussions.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for observability and AIOps tooling, including data sovereignty and compliance.
• Produce and maintain design docs, runbooks, and ARs to keep the platform operable and extensible.
• Own and evolve metrics pipelines, logging stacks, and distributed tracing across data centers.
• Define Grafana standards and drive telemetry expansion with product teams.
• Define capacity and retention strategies for telemetry as the fleet grows.
• Own IaC for observability across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
• Write reviews for automation across Debian-based bare metal servers.
• Collaborate with Network Eng on BGP and network-level observability.

Skills

Observability

SRE collaboration

Distributed systems

Tools

VictoriaMetrics

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

Grafana

OpenSearch

Logstash

Filebeat

Consul

Kubernetes

Ceph

BGP

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Remote, full-time Senior Infrastructure leader to own architectural direction for observability across data centers. You will guide metrics, logs, and traces, mentor teams, and drive automation with AI-powered approaches for scalable infrastructure.

This senior IC role requires deep distributed systems and cross-team collaboration. You will own metrics pipelines (VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus), logging (OpenSearch, Logstash, Filebeat), tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry), and