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:
- Own performance, scalability, and operational excellence across critical services.You will blend software engineering and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems-focusing on performance, capacity, availability, and security.
- You'll own service reliability across the stack and collaborate closely with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams to ensure services are resilient by design and self-healing by default.
You'll Get To:
- Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and increase team velocity.
- Lead timely and reliable deployments, with emphasis on progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue/green, feature flags, zero outage, etc.).
- Partner in blameless postmortems and ensure incident reviews lead to systemic fixes.
- Automate secure lifecycle of certificates, secrets, and credentials.
- Build and maintain cloud-native security stacks and compliance guardrails.
- Execute infrastructure rotation and automated rehydration to maintain fleet hygiene.
- Create and manage highly reproducible environment provisioning via Infrastructure as Code.
- Collaborate across disciplines to ensure observability, traceability, and cost-efficiency.
- Own end-to-end service operations including on-call, deployments, capacity planning, cost optimization, incident response, etc.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across availability, latency, and efficiency.
- Champion SLIs/SLOs/SLAs to measure and improve system health and user experience. Define and enforce error budgets to balance innovation and stability.
What You'll Bring:
- 5-10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering in production cloud environments.
- Education: B.tech/B.E in Computer Science or related field.
- Expertise in automation, observability & monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management.
- Experience with SRE principles (SLI/SLO/error budgets/postmortems, etc).
- Proficient in IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef.
- Experience in working on HashiCorp tools - Consul, Vault, Nomad, Packer.
- Strong cloud knowledge (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure a plus).
- Experience with containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, etc.).
- Advanced scripting and automation (Python, Go, PowerShell).
- Familiarity with cloud cost monitoring and optimization techniques.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including documentation.
- Proven ability to lead high-stakes recovery and drive systemic resilience improvements.
We're Even More Excited If You Have:
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Cloud Knowledge: Preferred - GCP, Azure, AWS
- OS Skills: Linux, Windows.
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Chef.
- Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, Nomad, ArgoCD
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Harness (preferred - Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Shell, Go.
- Version Control: Git.
- Cloud Certifications: Preferred certifications like HashiCorp Terraform Associate+, Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), Associate+ Cloud Engineer (ACE), Cloud Engineer, Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, Cloud DevOps Engineer, New Relic Certified Full Stack Observability Practitioner, etc.
- Programming Languages: Advanced skills in Python, Groovy, Go and other programming languages.
- Troubleshooting Skills: Skill in managing and prioritizing troubleshooting of enterprise services with complex interactions between applications, operating systems, network protocols, and client configurations.
- Technical Depth: Capable of technical deep dives into code, networking, operating systems, and storage, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold your own in a strategy discussion with the leadership team.
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 culture where BlackLiner's 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, ethnicity, 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.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.
Top Skills
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
BlackLine gives you the innovation of AI-powered software solutions you need to optimize workflows, reduce risk, and prepare for tomorrow’s strategic F&A challenges. BlackLine is the leader in the cloud financial close market and the first and only holistic solution to address intercompany operations. Companies can execute and manage financial close, intercompany, and invoice-to-cash processes with end-to-end transparency and intelligent automation. They can shift their focus from governance to guidance and deliver strategic business outcomes faster and with greater control.
Since our founding in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls critical accounting processes. BlackLine is ranked No.5 globally on The Software Report’s 2023 ‘Top 100 Software Companies’ list and earned ‘Top Rated’ awards in Accounting, Financial Close, and Accounts Receivable from TrustRadius. BlackLine was also named to Newsweek’s ‘Most Loved Workplaces’ lists in the US (2022) and UK (2023).
BlackLine is trusted by thousands of companies across all industries and geographies. Headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA, BlackLine is a global company with operations in locations including Pleasanton, New York, London, Paris, Bengaluru, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.
Leading companies like SiriusXM and Domino’s trust BlackLine to close faster with complete and accurate results.
Why Work With Us
BlackLine is a female-founded company led by Therese Tucker, founder and co-CEO.
BlackLine is a people-focused company offering a collaborative environment, exciting new challenges, opportunities to acquire new skills, and mentoring to help you succeed. We empower our teams to thrive and always seek new and innovative ways to solve problems.
Gallery
BlackLine Teams
BlackLine Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
