[Hiring] Production Capacity Analyst @Backblaze External Website

Role Description

Backblaze is seeking a detail-oriented, systems-minded Production Capacity Analyst to support the planning, deployment, and management of infrastructure capacity across our global cloud storage platform. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate and reliable capacity data, supporting forecasting and hardware planning, and improving visibility into system utilization, growth, and cost drivers. You will work closely with Capacity Planning, Production Engineering, Data Center Operations, and Finance teams to ensure infrastructure growth is well understood, well coordinated, and aligned with business demand and development roadmaps. This is a collaborative, execution-focused role within Cloud Operations, contributing to service reliability and performance, cost efficiency, and operational readiness using high-quality data, thoughtful analysis, and consistent execution.

What You’ll Do

• Collect, reconcile, organize, and analyze data across storage, compute, and network systems to support capacity planning and operational decision making
• Contribute to short and mid-term cluster and data center capacity forecasts by maintaining datasets, validating assumptions, identifying trends, and improving model logic
• Coordinate hardware and site deployment readiness across production environments, including tracking deployments, managing open orders, and effecting internal asset movements to maintain balanced capacity availability
• Maintain and improve reporting on resource utilization, growth results and trajectories, and capacity constraints and risk, ensuring data is accurate, concise, and actionable
• Monitor key capacity metrics and dashboards to proactively identify anomalies, constraints, risks, and visibility issues
• Support Compliance, Security, audit, and reporting efforts related to capacity planning and infrastructure operations by scoping requirements, organizing data and tracking execution
• Contribute to automation of data collection, reporting, and analysis workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts
• Partner with Capacity Engineering, SRE, and Systems Engineering to ensure capacity data reflects real system behavior and operational conditions
• Communicate findings clearly and support coordination across teams to ensure alignment on capacity-related activities and priorities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Information Technology, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 2 to 4 years of experience in data analysis, infrastructure operations, capacity planning, infrastructure or production engineering, or a similarly technical role
• Experience working with structured data sets at moderate to large scale using modern database and data analysis tools, preferably SQL, Python, Snowflake, Metabase, Excel, Google Sheets, or similar languages and tools
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring systems, preferably Grafana, Metabase, Prometheus, OpenSearch, or equivalent platforms
• Understanding of core system resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, and how they impact performance, utilization, and scalability
• Working knowledge of core capacity planning concepts, including utilization tracking and saturation signals, headroom and buffer management, growth trend analysis, and basic forecasting methods
• Exposure to infrastructure cost modeling and financial analysis, including CapEx planning inputs, cost-per-unit metrics, and tradeoffs among stability, performance, and cost
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy, consistency, and validation
• Clear and concise communication skills, with the ability to present technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Encouragement to apply even if you don't meet every requirement
• Focus on learning, developing, and growing as key parts of our culture
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Equal Opportunity Employer