I applied online. I interviewed at Backblaze in May 2026
Interview
The interview process was fairly straight forward. A manager interview where we discussed monitoring and the like in some depth and an interview with the SRE manager where we discussed SRE-related topics.
There was meant to be at least one more interview with a person on the team, but they cancelled about an hour beforehand and I never heard back from anyone when I reached out. I liked the people I interviewed with but that was very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how you would go about implementing monitoring for a new system.