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Sr. Manager - SRE
Backblaze · Remote - US · Posted 13 days ago
About Backblaze
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. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.
We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of Backblaze production systems.
About the Role
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.
What You'll Do
• 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.
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