Staff Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help build BlackLine’s next-generation data platform. The role focuses on designing and building connectors that move data to and from BlackLine and ERP, banking, payments, tax, and subledger systems, with an emphasis on extensibility, usability, scalability, and the data-transfer protocols supported by each system. You will design, develop, troubleshoot, maintain, optimize, and scale cloud-based backend platform components, services, and frameworks, including event buses, API gateways, developer portals, job schedulers, identity management, search, workflow orchestration, and data integration. You will be a hands-on engineer who also leads and mentors other engineers, and you will collaborate in an agile environment focused on customer problems and product innovation. The role provides technical leadership across requirements analysis, architecture, development, testing, and delivery of secure, scalable distributed backend services. It also involves maintaining software quality, making technical decisions and trade-offs, supporting deployments and releases, and occasionally providing off-hours support. BlackLine describes its workplace as a combination of virtual and in-person interactions. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to an office will work in the office at least three days a week. The listed salary range is $222,000 to $278,000. Placement depends on relevant experience, skills, and location. Eligible employees may also receive short- and long-term incentives and benefit and wellness plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of professional experience building web-scale, highly available, multi-tenant SaaS, focused on backend platforms, frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
- Expertise in one or more object-oriented programming languages; C#, Java, or C++ are listed.
- Strong computer science foundation in data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Proven ability to write high-concurrency, multithreaded, secure, and scalable code.
- Experience delivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications using extensibility models such as white-box, glass-box, gray-box, and black-box; practical examples include object-oriented patterns, plugins, external callouts, events, and notifications.
- Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture, and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
- Fluency in SQL, NoSQL, data modeling, and transactional flows.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and system-level performance analysis abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Adaptability, collaboration skills, and a focus on results and value delivery.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Commitment to engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
- Experience with data integration and ETL tools, both productized and open source.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
- Open source contributor.
- Experience delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateways, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling, or search.
- At least 3 years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and a solid understanding of cloud-native services.
- FinTech or financial services domain background.
- Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or Microsoft, with a focus on the general ledger.
Responsibilities
- Design and build connectors for data exchange between BlackLine and ERP, banking, payments, tax, and subledger systems.
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, maintain, optimize, and scale cloud-based backend platform components, services, and frameworks.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership through requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing, and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
- Collaborate with product management, architects, and engineering teams to translate stated and unstated needs into functional and technical requirements.
- Lead technical design and architecture discussions, drive technical decisions, and make appropriate trade-offs among technology, functionality, robustness, performance, and extensibility.
- Estimate project scope and timelines and deliver against commitments.
- Implement and improve software development practices to meet integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
- Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate tools and technologies and recommend their use in product development.
- Promote software quality and technical excellence by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
- Encourage a forward-thinking development team and promote a quality-first culture.
- Mentor and coach team members, guide solutions to complex design issues, and conduct peer code reviews.
- Identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, concerns, and opportunities, and either address them or advocate for change.
- Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
Benefits
- Professional development seminars.
- Inclusive affinity groups.
- Short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility.
- Benefit and wellness plans.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
