Senior Manager – SRE

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $178k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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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

• Hire, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers, including coaching, career development, and performance management • Manage other engineering managers as required and help develop leadership capability within the organization • Establish team goals, objectives, and reliability priorities, ensuring commitments are delivered or expectations are proactively reset when circumstances change • Collaborate with engineering leaders across Backblaze to define strategic priorities and execution plans • Develop and improve automation that accelerates the deployment of new storage vaults, core servers, and supporting infrastructure • Own and improve vulnerability management and patching schedules to ensure contractual, operational, and security requirements are met • Drive complex reliability initiatives from problem discovery through implementation and resolution • Partner with engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, and alerting and provide meaningful insight into the health and performance of Backblaze infrastructure • Lead analysis of SLA and reliability performance, identify areas of risk, and drive corrective actions • Participate in leadership on-call rotations, major incident response, and post-incident reviews to continuously improve service reliability • Provide leadership during incidents and ensure root cause analyses, corrective actions, and follow-up work are completed effectively • Apply established ITIL and operational processes across incident, change, problem, and capacity management • Partner with Engineering, Customer Success, Product, and Operations teams to support resilient system design and reliable production operations • Engage with customers to understand their reliability needs and ensure stability priorities reflect customer experiences and business requirements • Work with vendors and service providers to troubleshoot service issues and monitor SLA performance • Lead cross-functional initiatives to identify gaps in observability, operational processes, reliability, and infrastructure management • Identify recurring operational issues and develop long-term strategies and action plans to address them • Document systems, share learnings, and promote a reliability-focused engineering culture across Backblaze

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure, or production operations, including significant engineering leadership experience • Demonstrated experience building, managing, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical teams • Experience leading reliability or infrastructure organizations operating large-scale, production-grade systems • Strong understanding of deploying and managing large fleets of Linux hosts, with a strong emphasis on automation • Strong knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, or comparable platforms • Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, incident processes, and reliability practices at scale • Strong understanding of storage systems, including storage performance, sharding, distributed architectures, and storage algorithms • Understanding of load-balancing technologies and services, including IPVS or comparable technologies • Experience managing security-focused infrastructure operations, including patching, hardening, vulnerability identification, and remediation • Demonstrated ability to lead major incidents and post-incident processes, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning • Experience using automation and AI-assisted technologies to improve engineering productivity, system performance, operational efficiency, or scalability • Ability to independently take ownership of complex problems and drive initiatives from discovery through resolution • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, executives, customers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity grants for eligible full-time employees • Annual company bonus program • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for eligible employees and family members • 401(k) program • Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Flexible vacation policy • Parental leave benefits • MacBook Pro and workstation support • Childcare support • Fertility treatment and family-building support • Learning and development opportunities • Commuter benefits where applicable • A culture that supports a healthy work-life balance