178K–210K USD / year
Sr. Manager - SRE
Engineering managerWorkplace — United States
Published on 2026-10-23
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About this role
Lead Backblaze’s Site Reliability Engineering organization to improve the stability, scalability, and reliability of production systems. The role combines engineering team leadership with cross-functional reliability strategy, incident leadership, automation, and operational improvement.
About the company
Backblaze provides cloud object storage and backup services for individuals and businesses. It serves teams that need affordable, durable storage and simple data protection.
Stack
LinuxVictoriaMetricsPrometheusGrafanaOpenSearchIPVSAWSGoogle Cloud Platform
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and manage SREs and, as needed, other engineering managers.
- Set team goals and reliability priorities, and partner with engineering leaders on strategy and execution.
- Improve automation for deploying storage vaults, core servers, and supporting infrastructure.
- Own vulnerability management, patching schedules, and security-focused infrastructure operations.
- Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and SLA and reliability performance.
- Lead major incidents, on-call leadership, post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives to address reliability, infrastructure, and operational process gaps.
- Engage customers and vendors on reliability needs, service issues, and SLA performance.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years in SRE, systems engineering, infrastructure, or production operations, including significant engineering leadership.
- Experience building, managing, and developing high-performing technical teams and large-scale production systems.
- Strong understanding of Linux fleet management and automation.
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring platforms such as VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenSearch.
- Experience with operational procedures, incident processes, runbooks, and reliability practices at scale.
- Understanding of storage systems, distributed architectures, storage performance, sharding, and storage algorithms.
- Experience with security-focused infrastructure operations, including patching, hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
- Strong incident leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience operating hyperscale infrastructure or working in SaaS, cloud, storage, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with object storage, ITIL or OSS practices, and defining or improving SLOs and SLAs.
- Experience with major cloud platforms and infrastructure scaling or reliability transformations.
- Experience using automation and AI-assisted technologies to improve engineering productivity or operations.
Benefits
- Equity grants for eligible full-time employees
- Annual company bonus program
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees and family members
- 401(k) program and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flexible vacation policy and parental leave
- Childcare and family-building support
- Learning and development opportunities
- Commuter benefits where applicable