Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Make Your Mark: The Staff Cloud Platform Engineer is a senior technical leader at the heart of BlackLine’s platform strategy.

What You'll Bring

• 7-10+ years of experience in any combination of engineering, platform, or SRE roles.
• Expert, deep proficiency in at least one of: Rust, C#, Python, Go, Java, or equivalent) for platform engineering and SaaS development.
• Understanding of container-targeted application development, such as with Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, or App Engine.
• Understands and leverages cutting-edge AI tools, such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Cursor, to enhance development productivity and efficiency of delivery; while effectively curating code quality.
• Hands-on experience with GCP (preferred) and/or AWS in production at scale; strong understanding of core services including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC networking, and IAM.
• Experience working with stateful databases and key-value datastores, such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, and ValKey.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions, lead platform-level initiatives, and influence cross-functional engineering teams.
• Thinks and executes like a technically minded product owner: is able to extract meaningful prioritization and delivery milestones from top-down leadership decisions and org initiatives.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven platforms (Kafka, Airflow, or equivalent).
• Strong written and oral communication skills; track record of building productive relationships across engineering, product, and IT organizations.
• Constant drive for operational improvement: ability to identify bottlenecks, implement change, and raise the quality bar across teams.

What You'll Get To

• 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 consistent, efficient services.
• Champion a security-first approach across all platform design: network topology, firewall policy, container hardening, logging, monitoring, availability, and resiliency.
• Establish and maintain observability through custom sensors, dashboards, and alerting to ensure health, performance, and SLO compliance.
• Own and evolve the team’s CI/CD strategy, ensuring the right mix of operational efficiency and toolchain security.
• Collaborate with and influence partner engineering teams, product, and IT teams on architecture decisions, IaC principles, and platform standards.
• Mentor engineers across the team; define and uphold documentation, operational runbooks, and engineering standards.
• Provide technical leadership for major cross-functional initiatives and serve as an escalation point for complex issues.