Site Reliability Engineer II
Backblaze External Website9 days ago
Remote, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Support the availability and durability of critical services across production environments.
- Monitor service health using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and escalate risks to service thresholds.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Develop automation and scripts to reduce manual operational work and improve reliability.
- Contribute to monitoring, logging, alerting, configuration management, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD tooling.
- Partner with engineering, product, operations, vendors, and service providers to troubleshoot issues and track SLA performance.
- Create and maintain playbooks, runbooks, system documentation, and long-term reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2–4 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or operations.
- Experience or exposure to large-scale, production-grade systems.
- Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Bash, or Go.
- Understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, containers, and microservices.
- Preferred experience in SaaS, service provider, or distributed systems environments.
- Preferred familiarity with ITIL/OSS practices, SLOs, SLAs, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, solve problems, and drive projects through resolution.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About Backblaze External Website
Backblaze provides cloud storage and backup services for businesses, developers, and individuals, centered on its B2 S3‑compatible object storage and Computer Backup offerings. It also offers B2 Overdrive for high‑throughput AI/GPU data pipelines and B2 Neo for white‑label enterprise storage, sold on usage-based and subscription pricing. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, the NASDAQ‑listed company (BLZE) serves 500,000+ customers across 175 countries.