Senior Software Engineer

Wondering what it’s like to work at BlackLine? Don’t take our word for it. We’ve been voted Best Place to Work by Inc. Magazine four years in a row. Built in LA ranks us in their top 100 Best Places to Work in LA. Reviewers on Glassdoor say we have “smart and kind people,” “phenomenal culture,” and “good work/life balance.” Sound good?

You'll Get To:

• Design, develop and deliver product features, while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and habits 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.
• Mentor and coach junior team members and guide them to solutions.
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change by working with peers and leadership to build consensus and take action.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
• Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
• Passion for engineering excellence, curiosity and demonstrated ability of continuous learning.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree is a plus.
• 6+ years of industry experience designing and operating distributed systems or high-availability, high-throughput production systems.
• Experience designing and building microservices architectures, including RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages: .NET (C#), Java, or Python, with strong command of object-oriented and functional programming principles.
• Deep understanding of event-driven design, domain-driven design (DDD), and the trade-offs involved in architectural decisions at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with GCP services (Cloud Storage, GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub) and Terraform as infrastructure-as-code tool.
• Experience integrating Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build) following GitOps principles.
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with relational and non-relational databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and NoSQL solutions.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event streaming platforms for building real-time, event-driven systems.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, messaging patterns, and system integration strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and modern development tools across the full SDLC.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices, performance optimization, and system resiliency.
• Strong culture of automated testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end.
• TDD or BDD experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude in day‑to‑day engineering workflows, with the ability to integrate these tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality, security, and maintainability standards.
• Ability to design, build, and ship agentic AI features or frameworks, including autonomous workflows and secure orchestration of AI-driven actions.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance, while advocating for engineering quality and strong documentation.

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Google Professional Cloud Developer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
• Familiarity with Generative/Agentic AI ecosystem on GCP.
• Experience with React for frontend collaboration and full-stack feature delivery.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Practical experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including document retrieval, embedding strategies, and LLM integration for knowledge-grounded applications.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) or vector databases as part of AI-powered backend systems.

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 3 days a week.

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