Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure
Backblaze External Website6 hours ago
Remote, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build automation frameworks for provisioning, configuring, and repairing fleet infrastructure.
- Design and extend observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
- Build reporting, dashboards, and visualizations for fleet health, capacity, and operational trends.
- Develop system-health tooling to detect hardware failures, configuration drift, and capacity risks.
- Lead technical design discussions and create design documents spanning multiple services and teams.
- Drive large features from design through rollout, including migrations and backfills.
- Partner with on-call teams to convert recurring toil and incident findings into automation and better operational signals.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend development experience in an enterprise environment using an object-oriented or systems language such as Java, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
- Experience designing automation frameworks or platforms used by other engineers.
- Experience building large-scale software systems running on thousands of servers.
- Experience building internal platform services, operational tooling, or deployment and configuration pipelines used by engineers.
- Working knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog, including service instrumentation and trusted alert design.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and experience operating in bare-metal or hybrid environments.
- Professional experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Gemini, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Comfort with the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout.
- Preferred experience with Java, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, SLOs, error budgets, alert-noise reduction, time-series databases, PromQL, hardware lifecycle automation, CPU and I/O performance, Linux internals, file systems, hard-drive optimization, host-managed SMR, and operational models or dashboards.
- Strong curiosity, proactive remote communication, analytical thinking, and ability to work through ambiguous problems.
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.