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Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer

Backblaze

Remote · United States$10,250–14,583 gross/mofull-timeBackblaze Careers

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. Backblaze is seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform.

Responsibilities

  • Capacity Planning & Forecasting
  • Develop and maintain short, medium, and long-term capacity demand and hardware deployment forecasts across storage, compute, and network domains within the platform
  • Build predictive models that translate business demand signals into infrastructure requirements using historical utilization, growth trends, product sales plans, hardware lifecycle roadmaps, and other key business inputs
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Production, and Network Engineering teams to align capacity plans with system design and scaling initiatives
  • Develop and automate forecasting pipelines, simulation calculators and tools, and capacity dashboards to improve data quality, reduce manual analysis, and provide stakeholders clear visibility into platform usage and cluster health metrics
  • Cluster Performance & Resource Optimization
  • Monitor and analyze cluster and system-level utilization and performance across CPU, memory, IOPS, and network resources
  • Adjust deployment plans and recommended configurations in real-time to maintain adequate headroom and system stability in support of delivering a world-class customer experience
  • Partner with service and platform owners to develop headroom and live buffer policies, optimize hardware BoMs, leverage virtualized orchestration, and reduce product cost
  • Cross-functional Organizational Alignment

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    Remote
    Seniority
    Mid
    Posted
    29 Jun 2026
    Last verified
    In the last 5 days

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