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Sr. Observability Systems Engineer

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Location as listed by the employer: “Remote - US”
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About this role

Backblaze External Website is hiring for a Sr. Observability Systems Engineer role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in a systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability-focused role, including demonstrated technical leadership on a platform or infrastructure team.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or equivalent metrics platforms, including PromQL, Alertmanager, and operating these systems at scale.
  • Experience designing and operating log aggregation pipelines such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash, Filebeat, or similar.
  • Working knowledge of distributed tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent), including instrumentation strategy, not just operation.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Go for automation and tooling.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including deploying workloads and understanding pod networking and storage.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling and configuration management.
  • Strong understanding of Linux internals, with Debian/Ubuntu preferred.

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