Cloud Engineer
Company: Blackline
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: January 8, 2026
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Job Description:
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! The Cloud Engineer is at the core of preparing for the
continued exponential growth of Blackline’s SaaS product and other
programs in the Technical Operations group that powers all of
Blackline. Youll Get To: • Manage AWS, GCP and/or Azure cloud
environments • Install, configure, and upgrade SQL Server,
PostgreSQL, and MongoDB • Develop and implement backup and recovery
strategies for databases • Manage the full lifecycle of DevOps
tools, Jenkins, Artifactory, Consul and other tools as required
including upgrades, patches and scalability enhancements • Build
and manage cloud-based Kubernetes clusters • Configure, deploy, and
scale open source software including: Ubuntu Linux, Docker, rkt,
Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Flannel, Elasticsearch •
Contribute code back to open source projects to fix bugs and add
features needed by our team • Write new components from scratch
when there is no suitable open source project • Build sensors to
monitor platform health and performance • Interact with customers
to promote best practices and influence architecture to be
cloud-native • Serve as technical lead for small projects and
support medium to large projects • Troubleshoot and fix the system
when it breaks • Share the responsibility of being on-call What
Youll Bring: • A minimum of 3 years’ direct experience building or
operating cloud native applications using Kubernetes and Docker •
Proficiency with shell scripting and related tools • Proficiency
with Linux SysOps or Windows SysOps tasks • Experience using Docker
in production • Can write clean, readable code • Familiarity with
networking, comp sci stuff, and distributed systems • Expertise in
using and managing cloud platforms and cloud native tools • Strong
written and oral communication skills • Demonstrated experience
developing or operating production web applications and basic
understanding of HTTP(S), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML •
Intermediate knowledge of at least one of the following languages:
C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Linux, ASP.NET, Ruby, Go or Java
preferably in an agile SaaS environment • Exposure to Kubernetes in
a bare metal/non-public cloud provider environment • Experience
with open source platforms and technologies • Experience with
software development processes and methodologies • Experience
building cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud
environment such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure • Track record of
developing and implementing robust, distributed online solution
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 worlds
most trusted name in Finance Automation! • A culture that is kind,
open, and accepting. Its 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 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.
Keywords: Blackline, Berkeley , Cloud Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Pleasanton, California
