Staff Engineer

BlackLine; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackLine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build and scale our cloud-based backend platform, including data connectors and services like API gateway, event bus, and job scheduler. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture, and ensure secure, high-performance systems for multi-tenant customers.

You will collaborate with product, architects, and other teams to deliver impactful data integration capabilities, while advancing automation, testing, and secure coding practices in an

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience building Web-scale, multi-tenant SaaS backends with RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Expertise in OO languages such as C#, Java or C++ and strong CS fundamentals.
• Experience delivering extensible, modular applications with various extensibility models.
• Experience leading design, architecture and code reviews of scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in requirements analysis, design, estimation, development, testing and delivery of scalable backend services.
• Collaborate with product management and other teams to translate needs into technical requirements.
• Maintain a strong focus on business value, ROI, and timely delivery.
• Lead technical design discussions and drive decisions with trade-offs on tech choices and performance.

Skills

Backend development

Multi-tenant SaaS

C#/Java/C++

SQL/NoSQL

Technical leadership

RESTful APIs

Cloud services

Agile

Data integration

Open source experience

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

API gateway

Identity management

Workflow orchestration

Job scheduling

Search

Job description

Make Your Mark:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine and data platform. BlackLine thrives on data and we are investing heavily in being able to sync data from and to BlackLine and various ERP, Bank, Payments, Tax and Subledger systems. You will be responsible for designing and building connectors to these various systems, while striving for extensibility, usability and scalability of data transfer using a full breadth of data transfer protocols available by each system. You will be be part of a team which drives innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based backend platform components, services and frameworks, including but not limited to Event Bus, API Gateway, Developer Portal, Job Scheduler, Identity Management, Search, Workflow Orchestration and Data Integration. In addition to being a hands‑on engineer, you will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team. If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you.

You’ll Get To:

• - Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
• - Work with product management, architects and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements.
• - Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
• - Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade‑offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility.
• - Estimate the project scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments.
• - Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
• - Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies, and recommend ways to implement them in product development.
• - Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• - Inspire a forward‑thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality‑first culture within the organization.
• - Mentor and coach team members, guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
• - Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
• - Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off‑hours support.

What You’ll Bring:

• - BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• - 6+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi‑tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• - Expert in one or more object‑oriented programming languages C#, Java or C++.
• - A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi‑threaded, secure, scalable code.
• - Proven experience deilivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white‑box, glass‑box, gray‑box, and black‑box.
• - In practice, experience with extensibiity through OO patters, plugins, external callouts, and events and notifications.
• - Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event driven architecture.
• - Fluent in SQL, No‑SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
• - Superior analytical, problem‑solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• - Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• - Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• - Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
• - Experience with data integration and ETL tools (both productized and open source).

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• - Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
• - Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
• - Open source contributor.
• - Proven experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
• - 3+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud‑native services.
• - FinTech or Financial services domain background.
• - Experience with ERP (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft) platforms, with a focus on the general ledger.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

A technology‑based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem‑solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world’s most trusted name in Finance Automation! A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It’s a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives. A culture where BlackLiner’s continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in‑person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

Salary and Compensation:

Salary Range: $210,000.00-$263,000.00 Pay Transparency Statement: Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant’s prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short‑term and long‑term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans. We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On‑Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model – for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

Accommodations: BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

Accommodations: BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

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At BlackLine, we follow a comprehensive recruitment process which is undertaken by our talent acquisition team. We conduct personal interviews of all potential job seekers and do not follow practice of making employment offers based solely on a candidate’s resume. We do not solicit any payment under the name of security deposit and/or visa/work‑permit processing fee, etc., either refundable or non‑refundable, at any stage of the recruitment process. Openings at BlackLine are listed on our career webpage in addition to being advertised in job portals. Job seekers are requested to be vigilant of any fraudulent or suspicious activities in protection of their interest. BlackLine shall not be held liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, incurred as a result of this act.