About this role
Role Overview:
We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to design, build, and maintain resilient, high-scale systems supporting BlackRock’s Private Markets platform. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll apply deep engineering expertise to solve complex challenges, guide a global team, shape technical direction, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders—ensuring the reliability of mission-critical systems that power private market investment workflows and decision-making. You will drive the adoption of AI-driven solutions to accelerate incident detection and triage, reduce toil, improve forecasting and capacity planning, and strengthen end-to-end observability and resilience.
Role Responsibilities
Take ownership of project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using Agile methodologies, with clear outcomes around reliability automation and AI-enabled operations
Understand and refine business and functional requirements, translating them into SLOs/SLIs and AI-assisted observability and support capabilities
Hands on approach to getting work done—this role requires a “roll your sleeves up” mentality, including building and operationalizing reliability tooling and automation that measurably reduces toil and improves stability
Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity and efficiency to improve engineering effectiveness
Drive priority setting of the engineering teams, balancing foundational reliability work with delivery of new product features
Improve Engineering culture by encouraging continuous focus on reliability across the entire application lifecycle, and by adopting AI-enabled SRE practices (e.g., intelligent alerting, automated diagnosis, and self-healing where appropriate)
Proactive participant in architectural and design decisions, including AI-ready telemetry, data quality, and model integration patterns for operational analytics
Design and implement end-to-end monitoring solutions for application and infrastructure components, leveraging modern observability platforms plus AI/ML techniques for anomaly detection, correlation, and alert noise reduction
Drive the engineering of capacity management and demand forecasting solutions, including predictive analytics/ML approaches where they add measurable value
Act as a culture carrier and leader, passing on SRE knowledge and best practices to the engineering team
Drive detailed root cause investigations for production incidents with rigorous focus on issue avoidance, using AI-assisted correlation/analysis to accelerate time-to-insight
Create/coordinate retros for significant incidents, ensuring learnings are captured in automated/AI-assisted runbooks and embedded into prevention mechanisms
Additional core engineering functions, such as adding custom telemetry metrics/logs/traces to the code base of in-scope applications to enable AI/ML-driven operational insights
Anticipate new opportunities to continuously evolve the resiliency profile of scoped applications and infrastructure
Skills/Qualifications
Must Have
B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline with 10+ years of experience
Experience leading high performing engineering/SRE teams, with a track record of driving continuous improvement through automation and AI-enabled operations
Demonstrated ability to represent engineering/SRE priorities, status, and risk to senior leadership stakeholders with clear, executive-ready communication
Hands-on experience building or operating AI-assisted capabilities (AIOps, ML-based anomaly detection, or GenAI workflows) in an engineering/production environment
A passion for providing engineering support for highly available, performant full stack applications with a “Student of Technology” attitude
Experience with relational database and NoSQL Database (e.g. Redis, Apache Cassandra)
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
Skills Required
- B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
- 10+ years of experience in engineering or SRE
- Experience leading high performing engineering or SRE teams
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted capabilities in production environment
- Experience with relational database and NoSQL database
What We Do
As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement, home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments, foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals, including firefighters, nurses, teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven, focused on clients and risk management, and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone, helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world, Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster, more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock, we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions, simplify complexity, and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning, wealth building or navigating market shifts, we’re here to help clients invest more easily, more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com
Why Work With Us
Without our people, technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology, we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees, clients, shareholders and society alike.
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