Sr. Observability Systems Engineer

Backblaze

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$178,000–$200,000/yr

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Technical Leadership:

  • Define observability standards and architecture across the organization.
  • Mentor engineers and lead design reviews for observability initiatives.

Observability Platform:

  • Own the VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus metrics pipeline, including Consul-based service discovery.
  • Expand the logging stack with OpenSearch, Logstash, and Filebeat across all data centers.
  • Architect distributed tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry, extending coverage to new services.

Infrastructure & Automation:

  • Manage infrastructure-as-code for observability deployments across Kubernetes clusters.
  • Automate configuration management on Debian-based bare metal servers.

Backblaze

Backblaze is a cloud storage and backup provider serving hundreds of thousands of customers with a custom storage platform across multiple data centers. The company values engineering excellence, transparency, and operational rigor, and is committed to diversity and inclusion.

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