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Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer

Backblaze
Posted a month ago

LOCATION

US · Remote

EXPERIENCE

3 - 6 Years

SALARY

$123K - $175K

SKILLS REQUIRED

Infrastructure Forecasting AutomationPredictive ModelingCapacity Planning

Job description

Overview

Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer to plan, forecast, deploy, and optimize hardware infrastructure for a global cloud storage platform.

What you'll do

  • Develop short-, medium-, and long-term capacity demand and hardware deployment forecasts across storage, compute, and network.
  • Build predictive models translating business demand into infrastructure requirements using historical and planning inputs.
  • Build and automate forecasting pipelines, simulation tools, and capacity dashboards.
  • Monitor and analyze cluster utilization and performance across CPU, memory, IOPS, and network resources.
  • Adjust deployment plans and configurations in real time to maintain headroom and system stability.
  • Align capacity plans with capital budgets, cost targets, and financial outcomes, and support infrastructure investment decisions.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 3-6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure capacity planning, systems/infrastructure engineering, production engineering, data center operations, or similar Cloud Operations roles.
  • Familiarity with cloud storage infrastructure for highly available, large-scale distributed systems with high throughput and performance requirements.
  • Background in capacity modeling, performance/scenario modeling, and/or infrastructure cost optimization.
  • Proficiency in database/data analysis tools (preferably Snowflake, Metabase, Grafana, Python, SQL, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, and Excel/Google Sheets).
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Details

  • Work mode: Remote (US).

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Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer