Senior Software Engineer

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:

BlackLine SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, payment systems, point‑of‑sale systems and other applications.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in delivering high‑quality releases to our customers by 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 collaborate with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features while writing elegant code, and communicate 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, then we want to talk to you.

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.