Vice President

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

23h•$195,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. is hiring a Vice President to develop and implement observability solutions that monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability. The role oversees the development and maintenance of observability tools and platforms, builds or enhances platform libraries and infrastructure to capture telemetry from Aladdin applications, and designs or improves dashboards and alerts for application monitoring and troubleshooting. The Vice President collaborates with engineering, SRE, and client support teams to ensure effective use of observability solutions, helps development teams increase adoption and maturity, and works with observability vendors to evaluate new features and maintain services. The position is based at 400 Howard St, San Francisco, California, and follows BlackRock’s hybrid work model: employees are currently required to work in the office at least four days per week, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week. Some business groups may require additional office time. The San Francisco salary range is USD $195,000–$230,000. Employees are also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including healthcare, leave, and retirement benefits. BlackRock describes additional benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Five years of experience in the job offered or as an Application Engineer, Associate, Analyst, or related role.
Five years of experience in software engineering in an enterprise environment; Java; Python and Go; Kubernetes; Azure Cloud and AWS; CI/CD tools including Azure DevOps; databases including Sybase and MSSQL; observability platforms including Grafana and Splunk; and PromQL.
Four years of experience with OpenTelemetry agents and collector; TraceQL and LogQL; and data platforms including Snowflake.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement observability solutions to monitor and improve systems’ performance, reliability, and scalability.
Oversee the development and maintenance of observability tools and platforms to meet organizational needs.
Create or enhance platform libraries and related infrastructure to capture telemetry from Aladdin applications.
Design or enhance dashboards and alerts for application monitoring and troubleshooting.
Collaborate with engineering, SRE, and client support teams to ensure effective use of observability solutions.
Work with development teams to remove adoption roadblocks and improve the maturity of observability implementations.
Partner with observability vendors to evaluate new features and maintain existing services.