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Sr. Observability Systems Engineer

Backblaze External Website ·US ·Remote 9d ago
PrometheusJaegerOTELGrafanaPythonGoKubernetesLinux

About the role

Senior observability engineer responsible for setting technical direction for infrastructure monitoring across multiple data centers. Owns metrics pipeline (VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus), logging stack (OpenSearch, Logstash), distributed tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry). Mentors engineers, leads design reviews, applies AI/automation to incident detection. Works with SRE, Storage, Network teams on observability at scale with exabytes of storage.

Requirements

8+ years in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability. Deep hands-on with Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, log aggregation, distributed tracing, Python/Go, Kubernetes, IaC, Linux (Debian). Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership. Excellent communication skills.

About the company

Backblaze External Website

Backblaze provides scalable and cost-effective cloud storage solutions, including high-throughput object storage for AI and data-driven workloads. They offer reliable online backup for businesses and individuals, aiming to simplify data protection and management.

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$178k–200k
Remote Remote - US
Posted 9d ago
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About the company
Backblaze External Website
https://www.backblaze.com

Backblaze provides scalable and cost-effective cloud storage solutions, including high-throughput object storage for AI and data-driven workloads. They offer reliable online backup for businesses and individuals, aiming to simplify data protection and management.

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