Job Description

• Bengaluru, India

Get to Know Us:

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Make Your Mark:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (5yrs - 10yrs) to lead the development of new Cloud native tools and services with extensive experience with deploying and monitoring Infrastructure as code (IAC),

In this role, you will lead architecture, design, build, and manage physical data structures designed for flexibility, scalability and resiliency to support current and future business needs of all the Blackline Accounts Receivable products and initiatives in automated, repeatable way. Your role encompasses aspects of capacity planning, technical project execution, performance monitoring, site reliability, security and software engineering.

Tools and services built by Cloud Engineering will provide the cloud native foundation for future Blackline Products and Services. You will also design, build, and maintain processes and components of a data pipeline to support analytics, focusing on data quality and governance, pipeline performance, and best practices for democratized data access. You will also collaborate and influence across partner teams on design and architecture with our IAC principles and make recommendations for improvements.

If you’re an expert in DevOps principles, Containers, Event driven technology, traditional data warehousing, ETL and/or big data pipeline and processing, you’re exactly who we’re seeking. Technical capabilities aside, if you’re a self-starter who’s comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big without overlooking minute details, and who thrives in a fast-paced environment, you’re perfect for our team.

You'll Get To:

• Design and build Blackline's cloud infrastructure platforms using infrastructure as code methods to accelerate software engineering and data science teams ability to deliver new products and services

  - Design and build cloud tools that democratize access to the cloud in order to accelerate software engineering and data science teams ability to deliver new products and services

  - Improves the BlackLine SaaS service experience by discovering and highlighting optimization opportunities with existing code or architectural design to address application availability, performance, observability, efficiency, and security challenges.

  - Develops tools and systems to automate the identification, analysis, and remediation of application events, infrastructure issues, or requests.

  - Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security and with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)

  - Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities

  - Support non-functional requirements such as serviceability, supportability, logging, Monitoring and alerting etc.

  - Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.

  - Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on Microsoft Azure core platform

  - Take part in Release Management activities, including rota for deployments to Production on Sundays (with time off in week provided)

  - On rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field of study.

• Exposure to Azure DevOps, proven track record and experience with support of Enterprise Azure SAAS (.Net applications)  applications hosted in app service plans - Serverless App services and Function apps, Observability tools , Application insights, exposure to KQL , New Relic with monitoring of Azure services. Scripting - PowerShell and Azure CLI, YAML

  Track record of Customer incidents and RCA to support customer during outage.

  Release management via Azure DevOps

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Experience with various file formats such as JSON, Avro, and Parquet.
• Experience with event-driven architecture/systems and messaging platforms.
• Experience with Hive, open-source / data bricks delta lake or Iceberg or Hudi
• Experience with Google Cloud or a similar cloud provider.