Get to Know Us 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 cutting-edge 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 As a Staff Software Engineer you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine applications and data platform BlackLine thrives on data and we are investing heavily in being able to sync data from and to BlackLine and various ERP Bank Payments Tax and Subledger systems If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating we would love to talk to you You ll Get To You will be part of a team which drives innovation into our product suite by designing developing troubleshooting maintaining optimizing and scaling full-stack cloud-based solutions running on some combination of Google Cloud Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services You will be responsible for designing and building components that enhance the configurability extensibility and interoperability of these various systems and the customer systems to which they connect while striving for usability and scalability of data transfer using a full breadth of design techniques and data transfer protocols available within each system Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis design effort estimation development testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services Mentor and coach team members guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews Work with product management architects and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning design and communication Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology functionality robustness performance and extensibility Estimate the project scope and timelines and consistently deliver on those commitments Implement refine and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the delivered features meet software integration performance security and maintainability expectations Research test benchmark and evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend ways to implement them in product development Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean testable maintainable and secure code Inspire a forward-thinking team of developers acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization Proactively identify issues bottlenecks gaps or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change or advocate for that change Perform critical maintenance deployment and release support activities including occasional off-hours support What You ll Bring Masters Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field 9 years of professional experience in building full-stack Web-scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS including substantial experience with backend platform frameworks RESTful APIs and microservices 3 years of experience with public cloud AWS Azure or GCP and solid understanding of cloud-native services Hands-on experience with C programming using NET framework NET Core and strong exposure to Python is required Experience working with large volume of data hence working with ETL tools would be a plus Expertise in non-functional requirements Rate limiting bulkheading API retries ability to handling failover scenarios etc Having exposure to any of the observability platform could be a plus A solid computer science foundation including data structures algorithms and design patterns with a proven track record of writing high concurrency multi-threaded secure scalable code Proven experience delivering and extending highly extensible modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white-box glass-box gray-box and black-box In practice experience with extensibility through OO 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 Fluent in SQL No-SQL data modeling and transactional flows Superior analytical problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities Excellent written and verbal communication skills Experience with reading writing Stored Procedures Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery Experience working in an Agile development environment Passion for engineering excellence through automation unit testing and process improvements We re Even More Excited If You Have Open-source contributor FinTech or Financial services domain background Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 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 has 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 2 days a week