Senior Site Reliability Engineer - FedRAMP - Blackline

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!

The successful applicant will be performing work in FedRAMP environments, and therefore, must be a US Citizen.

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. 

• Build, integrate and deploy data processing solutions into BlackLine applications in collaboration with architecture, product management, cloud infrastructure, and other engineering teams.
• Responsible for building and maintaining Spark-based data pipelines in GCP leveraging Dataproc, Kafka, and Pyspark.
• Design & Build data flows for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
• Design & Build data lake using lake house architecture.
• Create and maintain data service REST API endpoints in GCP.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement ETL process automation to onboard new datasets, etc.
• Execute extract, transform and load (ETL) operations on large datasets including data identification, mapping, aggregation, conditioning, cleansing, analyzing, etc.
• Establish & maintain data mapping, data model, and metadata services.
• Be a champion of the overall data strategy for data governance, security, privacy, quality, and retention that will satisfy business policies and requirements.
• Identify, document, and promote best practices.
• Respond to and troubleshoot incidents. Conduct root cause analysis.
• Evaluate and analyze systems, performance, issues, and metrics to provide recommendations for continuous improvements.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field of study.
• 5+ years of work experience in a data engineering/warehouse team.
• 5+ years of ETL experience using Python, Py-spark, SQL, and/or other ETL tools.
• 3+ years of experience in big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop or Spark.
• 3+ years of experience interacting with APIs (REST, SOAP, etc.)
• 3+ years of programming experience in Python or Scala
• Strong understanding of big data components and frameworks, real-time data streaming solutions
• Experience building a data lake solution to serve analytics and operational data processing needs.
• Data warehousing experience, data modeling, and database design.
• Practical experience with GIT version control.
• Comfortable working with open-source tools in Windows/Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience with Agile software development processes and methodologies.
• Ability to work independently without the need for supervision.
• Ability to adapt and learn new technologies.

• Experience with various file formats such as JSON, Avro, and Parquet.
• Experience with event-driven architecture/systems and messaging platforms.
• Experience with Hive, open-source / data bricks delta lake or Iceberg or Hudi
• Experience with Google Cloud or a similar cloud provider.

• 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 2 days a week.

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.