Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer
BackblazeArgentina • Colombia • Costa Rica • Mexico
Posted April 7, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators.
Job Description
Backblaze is seeking a Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, configure, and maintain data solutions, improve production system scalability, performance, and availability, and deliver enhancements to observability, operability, and reliability. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in databases, eventing systems, or distributed caching systems, experience in Linux environments, and experience running systems at cloud scale. Bonus points for Kubernetes experience and familiarity with automation tools (Ansible).
Requirements
- Design, configure, and maintain data solutions such as Vitess, Apache Cassandra, NATS, Redis/ValKey
- Work closely with Operations and Application Engineers to develop new solutions and optimize existing ones
- Improve production system scalability, performance, and availability
- Deliver enhancements to observability, operability, and reliability to lower TCO
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
