Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 looking for a self-driven, detail-oriented, and passionate engineer to come to join our Data Engineering team.
As a member of the Data Engineering team, you will help develop cloud-based data platforms & services that enable the organization to develop new product offerings, improve existing products and make data-driven decisions. You will leverage the power of the Google Cloud Platform and open-source technologies to empower BlackLine products and applications with scalable, resilient, and cost-effective data storage and data processing. The team is also responsible for building tools and promoting best practices for data management. In this role, you will have the opportunity to solve interesting data challenges in greenfield projects using modern technology architectures. You will work closely with Data Architects, Database Engineers, and Product Managers.
You'll Get To:

• Own performance, scalability, and operational excellence across critical services.You will blend software engineering and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems-focusing on performance, capacity, availability, and security.

• You'll own service reliability across the stack and collaborate closely with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams to ensure services are resilient by design and self-healing by default.

What You'll Bring:

• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and increase team velocity.

• Lead timely and reliable deployments, with emphasis on progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue/green, feature flags, zero outage, etc.).

• Partner in blameless postmortems and ensure incident reviews lead to systemic fixes.

• Automate secure lifecycle of certificates, secrets, and credentials.

• Build and maintain cloud-native security stacks and compliance guardrails.

• Execute infrastructure rotation and automated rehydration to maintain fleet hygiene.

• Create and manage highly reproducible environment provisioning via Infrastructure as Code.

• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure observability, traceability, and cost-efficiency.

• Own end-to-end service operations including on-call, deployments, capacity planning, cost optimization, incident response, etc.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across availability, latency, and efficiency.

• Champion SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to measure and improve system health and user experience. Define and enforce error budgets to balance innovation and stability.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• 5-10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering in production cloud environments.
• Education: B.tech/B.E in Computer Science or related field.
• Expertise in automation, observability & monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management.
• Experience with SRE principles (SLI/SLO/error budgets/postmortems, etc).
• Proficient in IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef.
• Experience in working on HashiCorp tools - Consul, Vault, Nomad, Packer.
• Strong cloud knowledge (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure a plus).
• Experience with containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Advanced scripting and automation (Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud cost monitoring and optimization techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including documentation.
• Proven ability to lead high-stakes recovery and drive systemic resilience improvement.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• 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.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.