We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead within our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization. The ideal candidate brings deep experience developing engineering strategies, leading high-performing technical teams, and translating reliability priorities into measurable outcomes.

As a leader at Backblaze, you will work across the organization to help achieve our reliability and operational goals, including partnering with engineering leaders, executives, customers, and other key stakeholders. This role will focus on unlocking the potential of our engineers through observability, automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Hire, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers, including coaching, career development, and performance management.

Manage other engineering managers as required and help develop leadership capability within the organization.

Establish team goals, objectives, and reliability priorities, ensuring commitments are delivered or expectations are proactively reset when circumstances change.

Collaborate with engineering leaders across Backblaze to define strategic priorities and execution plans.

Develop and improve automation that accelerates the deployment of new storage vaults, core servers, and supporting infrastructure.

Own and improve vulnerability management and patching schedules to ensure contractual, operational, and security requirements are met.

Drive complex reliability initiatives from problem discovery through implementation and resolution.

Partner with engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, and alerting and provide meaningful insight into the health and performance of Backblaze infrastructure.

Lead analysis of SLA and reliability performance, identify areas of risk, and drive corrective actions.

Participate in leadership on-call rotations, major incident response, and post-incident reviews to continuously improve service reliability.

Sr. Manager - SRE

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Backblaze

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