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Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Blackline · Pleasanton · On-site

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About Blackline

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About the role

The Staff Cloud Platform Engineer is a senior technical leader at the heart of BlackLine’s platform strategy. In this role you will drive the design, automation, and operational excellence of the service backbone that powers BlackLine SaaS products. You will lead the evolution of our mission-critical platforms that have a direct influence on revenue generation, as well as serve as a trusted technical authority influencing architecture across the organization.

What they're looking for

  • Proficiency with Kubernetes, including scheduler optimization, GitOps workflows via ArgoCD, config management via Kustomize, and security tooling
  • Familiarity with frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue are a plus
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud managed services, including: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and relevant compute products
  • Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation, experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management tooling
  • Experience with container security scanning, policy enforcement, and supply-chain tooling
  • A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives
More about this role

The Staff Cloud Platform Engineer is a senior technical leader at the heart of BlackLine’s platform strategy. In this role you will drive the design, automation, and operational excellence of the service backbone that powers BlackLine SaaS products. You will lead the evolution of our mission-critical platforms that have a direct influence on revenue generation, as well as serve as a trusted technical authority influencing architecture across the organization. If you are an expert in DevOps principles, containers, event-driven technology, and data pipeline engineering and you thrive with ambiguity, think big without losing the details, and set the standard for engineering quality; this role is for you.

  • Serve as technical lead and subject matter expert for engineering platform service architecture, driving design and delivery of scalable, resilient, cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Architect and develop Kubernetes-native systems, including serverless architecture utilizing stateless services and serverless driven Knative sequences.
  • Design and operate event-driven systems, utilizing platforms like Kafka and Pub/Sub, and bring an understanding of how to build for eventually...

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