Senior Software Engineer – Data Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the data infrastructure platform that underpins Backblaze’s B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup services.

• Enhance automation, observability, and stability to ensure durability.

• Boost throughput and implement architectural transformations for long-term service objectives.

• Design and develop automation frameworks for the provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of fleet infrastructure.

• Create and expand observability stacks that encompass metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.

• Develop reporting tools, dashboards, and visualizations to monitor fleet health, capacity, and operational trends.

• Construct system health tools to identify failing hardware, configuration drift, and capacity risks before issues arise.

• Lead technical design discussions and generate design documents that span multiple services and teams.

• Oversee the implementation of large features from design to rollout, including migrations and backfills.

• Collaborate with the on-call team to convert recurring toil and incident insights into automation and enhanced signals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of backend development experience in an enterprise setting.

• Proficient in an object-oriented or systems programming language such as Java, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.

• Demonstrated experience in designing automation frameworks or platforms for use by other engineers.

• Background in developing large-scale software systems that operate on thousands of servers.

• Proven experience creating automation or tools utilized regularly by other engineers.

• Familiarity with observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog.

• Experience in instrumenting services and creating reliable alerts.

• Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals.

• Comfortable working in bare-metal or hybrid environments as opposed to fully managed cloud settings.

• Professional experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Gemini, Cursor, or Claude Code.

• Knowledge of the complete software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• A curious mindset and a willingness to understand issues before proposing solutions.

• Strong communication skills in a remote work environment.

• Analytical skills to tackle ambiguous problems.

• Bonus: proficiency in Java.

• Bonus: experience with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.

• Bonus: experience in designing SLOs and error budgets or minimizing alert noise at scale.

• Bonus: familiarity with time-series databases and query languages such as PromQL.

• Bonus: experience in automating hardware lifecycle tasks.

• Bonus: expertise in enhancing CPU and IO performance.

• Bonus: understanding of Linux internals and file systems.

• Bonus: familiarity with hard drive performance and host-managed SMR.

• Bonus: experience in building and analyzing models, dashboards, or reports.

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment.

• A workplace that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• A culture focused on learning, development, and growth.