Senior Software Engineer – Data Infrastructure

🕒 October 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Backblaze

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5M Series A on 2012-07

Cloud Storage • eCommerce • Enterprise

Backblaze is a cloud storage company that provides scalable and secure data backup solutions for both businesses and individuals. Their B2 Cloud Storage service offers S3 compatible object storage, allowing users to easily protect and manage their data with transparent pricing. Backblaze specializes in automatic and unlimited backup services for computer systems, ensuring data protection and recovery options for users, while also supporting integration with applications for enhanced functionality.

📋 Description

• Work on Backblaze’s data infrastructure platform supporting B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup products • Improve automation, observability, and stability for durability • Increase throughput and drive architectural changes for long-term service requirements • Design and build automation frameworks for provisioning, configuring, and repairing fleet infrastructure • Design and extend observability stacks covering metrics, logs, traces, and alerts • Build reporting, dashboards, and visualizations for fleet health, capacity, and operational trends • Build system health tooling to detect failing hardware, configuration drift, and capacity risks • Lead technical design discussions and produce design documents spanning services and teams • Drive large features from design through rollout, including migrations and backfills • Partner with the on-call rotation to convert recurring toil and incident findings into automation and better signals

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of backend development in an enterprise environment, working in an object-oriented or systems language (Java, Rust, C++, C#, Go, or similar) • Experience designing automation frameworks or platforms that other engineers build on • Experience building large scale software systems running on thousands of servers • Experience building automation or tooling that other engineers depend on daily, whether internal platform services, operational tooling, or a deployment and configuration pipeline • Working knowledge of an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, or equivalent), including instrumenting a service and designing alerts people trust • Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort operating in a bare-metal or hybrid environment rather than a fully managed cloud • Professional experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) • Comfortable with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout • Proficiency in Java • Experience with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tooling (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Terraform) • Experience designing SLOs and error budgets, or reducing alert noise on a fleet running at scale • Experience with time-series databases and query languages such as PromQL • Experience automating hardware lifecycle work: burn-in, failure detection, drive replacement, decommissioning • Experience with discovering and implementing performance improvements, including CPU and IO • Understanding of Linux internals and file systems • Familiarity with hard drive performance and optimization, including host-managed SMR • Experience building and interpreting models, dashboards, or reports • Good attitude and willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done • Strong desire to work for a small, fast-paced company • Desire to learn and adapt to rapidly changing technologies and work environment • Rigorous adherence to best practices • Relentless attention to detail • Excellent interpersonal skills and good oral/written communication • Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare for family, including dental and vision • Competitive compensation and 401K • RSU grants for full-time employees • ESPP program • Flexible vacation policy • Maternity & paternity leave • MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation • Childcare bonus (human children only) • Fertility treatment and support • Learning & development program • Commuter benefits • Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance

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