Senior SRE Lead — Fully Remote, Driving Reliability

Backblaze; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze seeks a results-driven Reliability Engineer to own the availability and durability of critical services across production environments. You will define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, escalate thresholds, and participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.

Design automation for common tasks, define monitoring and alerting frameworks, and work with Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins to strengthen CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Qualifications

• Own the availability and durability of critical services across production environments.
• Define monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks and ensure thresholds are met.

Responsibilities

• Architect automation for common operational tasks to reduce toil.
• Partner with engineering, customer success, product, and operations teams to support resilient system design.
• Lead cross-functional teams to identify gaps in observability and prioritize improvements.
• Document systems and share learnings to grow a reliability-minded culture.

Skills

Incident response

Leadership on-call

Observability

Reliability engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Catchpoint

ELK

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Backblaze seeks a results-driven Reliability Engineer to own the availability and durability of critical services across production environments. You will define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, escalate thresholds, and participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.

Design automation for common tasks, define monitoring and alerting frameworks, and work with Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins to strengthen CI/CD and infrastructure as code.