Principal Software Engineer, Backend

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 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:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high quality releases to our customers by defining application architecture, designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling Blackline's cloud-based backend services and driving innovation into our product suite.
In this role, you will work with management to identify strategic directions for system architecture. You will research, test, benchmark and evaluate new technologies, propose scaling solutions, collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, coaching and mentoring less experienced software engineers and communicating with people at all levels. Your attention to detail, tenacity, and creative problem solving and thinking ahead will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. 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, you will be a great fit for the team.
You'll Get To:

• Design, build and deliver enterprise-class solutions handling large volumes of data while adhering to timelines, coding standards, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver valuable insights.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies and recommend ways to implement them in product suite while keeping in mind the business strategy, short- and long-term roadmap, and architectural considerations to support them in a highly scalable and easy extensible manner.
• Inspire a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality first culture within the organization. Coach and technically train junior staff on design and development standards and best practices.
• Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• 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 act.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support

What You'll Bring:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience using C# or Java. Other programming languages such as Python is a plus.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs.
• Minimum of 5+ years working experience with SQL and proficiency in Snowflake data platform and warehouse, strong working knowledge in stored procedures, CTEs, and UDFs, RBAC.
• Experience in building enterprise applications with large volumes of data, using Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark.
• Excellent proficiency in microservices, event driven architecture, stream-processing systems like Kafka and building real time data pipelines.
• Experience with NoSQL systems such as MongoDB, cockroach DB, Apache Cassandra etc.
• Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in Container technologies: Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern Data Replication and Data processing tools such as Qlik.
• Experience in working in a startup-type environment, good team player, and can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills, comfortable presenting complex ideas in simple terms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in providing technical support and troubleshooting for critical and complex issues.
• Strong expertise in translating business strategies into technical, strategic and execution plans (roadmaps).
• Experience as a technical influencer for highly scalable distributed system designs.
• Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.
• Experience with open-source platforms and technologies.
• Experience with data science and machine learning tools and technologies is a plus.

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, 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.
Salary Range:
USD $174,000.00 - USD $232,000.00
Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.