BlackLine
BlackLine automates and controls financial close processes for midsize and large organizations.
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Senior Systems Engineer

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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:

 

BlackLine empowers our team members to be change agents and are always seeking new and innovative ways to solve problems. We are experiencing explosive growth and looking for passionate and talented people to join our team.


As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in the expansion of BlackLine's SaaS product and its supporting services across the globe to support our growing customer base. As a member of the Cloud Operations team, you will be involved in streamlining and automating the lifecycle of BlackLine's infrastructure, configuration, and software to ease management, provide consistency and visibility at scale, and maintain feature parity between on premise and public cloud environments. To do this, you should be able to leverage public cloud functionality, open-source products, and custom solutions as necessary.


You will be working closely with operators and developers to promote best practice architecture and provide subject matter expertise on how to best leverage automation and public cloud capabilities. As such, this person should advocate automation and provide mentorship to others throughout the company.

 

You'll Get To:

 

  • Ensure 99.99%+ availability of the services and infrastructure that spans across multiple global datacenters in private and public clouds.
  • Design, Build, and Run container platforms and supporting automation in a highly available, high traffic environment.
  • Monitor and maintain health, performance, and security of all infrastructure components.
  • Build systems and perform necessary tasks to deliver against committed project timelines.
  • Ability to effectively lead technical projects and make design decisions where applicable.
  • Maintain documentation and operational knowledge base.
  • Adhere to the change management and other established processes and procedures.
  • Respond to and troubleshoot incidents. Conduct root cause analyses. Provide remediation steps.
  • Evaluate and analyze systems, performance, issues and metrics in order to provide recommendations for continuous improvements.
  • Participate in a scheduled 24/7 on-call rotation for second tier support escalations.
  • Collaborate with smart, impassioned individuals from different backgrounds to create a robust and evolving platform.

What You'll Bring:

Years of Experience in Related Field: 5+ years

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in an IT or engineering discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Experience supporting Linux and Windows operating systems in a large-scale environment.
  • Track record of architecting, developing and implementing robust distributed online solutions.
  • Proficient with git-based development workflows.
  • Experience with software development processes and methodologies in a team setting.
  • Proficient developing Infrastructure as Code at an advanced level.
  • Experience with scripting or systems programming languages.
  • Fundamental knowledge of container orchestration concepts and technologies.
  • Advanced experience with one or more major public cloud providers running production workloads.
  • Experience automating application installation and configuration using startup scripts or configuration management software.
  • Hands-on problem-solving skills, technical leadership, and mentoring qualities.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • A minimum of two years of experience in a 24x7 operations organization, deploying and operating complex cloud infrastructure at scale.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

  • Significant experience with open source platforms and technologies.
  • Familiarity with Configuration Management tools (Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible).
  • Experience writing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Experience in mixed Windows/Unix/Linux environments.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)


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 company who believes in providing the best possible service to its clients, and that starts with offering amazing perks to its employees. These perks include 100% coverage for healthcare, vision, and dental, 401(k) matching, ESPP, food, drinks, games, and so much more!
  • A culture where BlackLiners' 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, 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.



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What are BlackLine Perks + Benefits

BlackLine Benefits Overview

BlackLine believes in providing the best possible service to its clients, and that starts with offering amazing perks to its employees. These perks include 100% coverage for healthcare, vision, and dental, 401(k) matching, ESPP, food, drinks, games, and so much more!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
At BlackLine, we feel that paying 100% of our employees’ health benefits is 100% the right thing to do. Medical, dental, and vision are taken care of by the company.
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
BlackLine has been offering company wide virtual fitness classes such as, Aerobics and Yoga!
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
BlackLine provides employees with a 401(k) matching plan.
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
BlackLine offers and Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the ability to buy stock at a discounted price.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Floating holidays
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
BlackLine hosts company outings several times per year.
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
We offer employees free on-site garage parking.
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

We’re better together and know that amazing individuals make amazing teams. We also know that we bond through socializing and shared experiences. That’s how teams gel and support each other.

So, we like to play games together: table tennis, poker, and video games. We encourage company sports leagues and fitness groups. We relax with happy hours and team get-togethers, and we never let a holiday season go by without a celebration.

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