Jobs at Backblaze

Designs, implements, and operates IAM capabilities for human and non-human identities, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. Responsibilities include authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM, least-privilege access, lifecycle automation, identity governance, workload identity, short-lived credentials, and access monitoring. The engineer collaborates with architects, engineering teams, resource owners, and Security Operations to reduce privilege, protect distributed systems, and investigate or revoke compromised access.

Design, implement, and maintain B2 and S3-compatible APIs and distributed storage systems. Lead technical design discussions, improve scalability and reliability, define metrics and SLIs/SLOs, develop observability tooling, and participate in on-call incident response. The role requires strong server-side Java experience, algorithms and data structures expertise, large-scale distributed systems experience, proactive remote communication, and use of AI-assisted development tools.

Maintain and improve production service reliability by building automation, monitoring and alerting, participating in on-call incident response, and partnering with engineering and operations to embed reliability practices and reduce operational toil.

Own partner operations systems and processes, including Salesforce data governance, attribution, deal registration, partner onboarding, tiering, MDF, enablement tracking, and reporting. Administer and migrate the partner platform, automate workflows, support partner commercial operations, resolve operational issues, and deliver business insights. The role requires advanced Salesforce expertise and cross-functional collaboration across partner segments, RevOps, IT, sales, and leadership.

Lead partner marketing for Backblaze’s AI-focused ecosystem. Build strategic plans, co-marketing programs, partner narratives, sales enablement, technical content, event presence, announcements, and partner-facing digital assets. Translate product positioning for partners, coordinate cross-functional campaigns, track pipeline and campaign impact, and strengthen Backblaze’s profile through joint content, events, and thought leadership. Requires deep B2B technology and partner marketing experience, technical fluency in cloud storage and AI data workflows, and approximately 25% travel.

Designs and builds data infrastructure for large-scale object storage and backup services. Responsibilities include automation frameworks, observability, fleet health tooling, dashboards, capacity monitoring, system stability, architectural improvements, and large feature rollouts. The role partners with on-call teams to reduce operational toil and requires backend development experience, Linux expertise, distributed systems knowledge, and experience operating software across thousands of servers.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

Operate and maintain production database systems, primarily Vitess, MySQL, and Cassandra. Monitor reliability using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and observability tools; participate in on-call incident response and post-incident reviews. Execute backup, recovery, replication, security, and performance-tuning procedures. Build automation with scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD tools while supporting capacity planning, disaster recovery, documentation, and continuous operational improvements.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization, managing and developing technical teams while driving reliability, scalability, observability, automation, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, vulnerability management, incident response, SLA and SLO analysis, monitoring improvements, post-incident reviews, ITIL processes, vendor coordination, and cross-functional reliability initiatives for large-scale production storage systems.

Own new-logo sales to named neocloud accounts worldwide, from prospecting and technical discovery through contract signing, implementation handoff, and expansion. Build relationships from infrastructure engineers to executives, lead complex multi-year deal negotiations, coordinate Sales Engineering, Field CTO, Operations, Engineering, Legal, and partners, and maintain accurate CRM forecasts. The role requires technical fluency in cloud, storage, networking, GPU infrastructure, and AI data pipelines, plus experience closing infrastructure deals.

Design and build data infrastructure automation, observability, health tooling, dashboards, and system improvements for large-scale object storage platforms. Lead technical designs and feature rollouts across services, improve fleet stability and throughput, automate hardware lifecycle processes, and partner with on-call teams to reduce operational toil and incidents.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the availability, scalability, durability, and operational reliability of production systems. The role leads observability, incident response, SLO and error-budget practices, automation, infrastructure as code, and long-term service improvements. Responsibilities include designing monitoring and alerting frameworks, supporting Kubernetes and distributed storage environments, improving operational processes, collaborating across engineering and business teams, and mentoring reliability-focused practices. The position requires extensive experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, containers, scripting, storage systems, and large-scale production environments.

Drive risk-based vulnerability and exposure management across infrastructure, applications, cloud services, endpoints, and software dependencies. Correlate vulnerability data with asset, configuration, threat intelligence, application testing, network exposure, and business context. Assess exploitability, prioritize remediation, identify compensating controls, partner with Red Team, and automate vulnerability analysis, remediation tracking, mitigation, and verification using scripting, data analysis, and AI-assisted workflows.

Own the architecture and evolution of Backblaze’s observability platform across multiple data centers. Lead metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes deployments, Ceph monitoring, and network observability. Establish technical standards, capacity strategies, documentation, and operational practices while mentoring engineers and partnering across SRE, storage, network, security, and application teams. Evaluate AIOps and agentic AI solutions to improve incident detection, correlation, and response.

Monitor and maintain storage infrastructure across data centers, resolve customer-affecting incidents, troubleshoot storage pods and hardware, support deployments and migrations, and manage alerts using Zabbix, Grafana, and OpenSearch. The role includes Ansible-based configuration changes, Jenkins deployments, network operations, post-mortems, automation, documentation, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Build and maintain open source AI integrations, frameworks, SDKs, notebooks, and example applications integrating AI workflows with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. Develop production-quality code using multiple open source languages and AI coding agents, contribute to public repositories, and ensure strong testing, documentation, security, reproducibility, and developer usability. Collaborate with Product and QA to support real-world AI workflows.

Leads enterprise security program planning and delivery across engineering, product, legal, and vendors. Manages timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, dashboards, and executive reporting for multiple concurrent initiatives. Coordinates incident response follow-up, improves cross-functional processes, and influences technical teams without direct authority. Requires strong communication, analytical, agile program management, and risk-assessment skills, with comfort operating during incidents and ambiguity.

Lead Backblaze’s developer relations strategy and establish B2 as the preferred storage layer for AI and agent-led projects. Coordinate engineering, documentation, content, solutions engineering, and startup-program resources; build credibility across developer communities, open source projects, events, and AI tooling ecosystems. Create feedback loops with product and engineering, define adoption and conversion metrics, produce technical content, and grow developer mindshare, engagement, signups, and usage.

Lead B2 cloud object storage product strategy, roadmap, discovery, and delivery. Translate customer and market needs into product requirements, collaborate with Design, Engineering, and go-to-market teams, launch features, track product metrics, and evangelize solutions. The role requires deep cloud architecture, API, security, compliance, and product lifecycle expertise, along with strong cross-functional leadership and customer research capabilities.

The Sr. Software Engineer will enhance Backblaze's storage platform by improving durability and throughput while managing software development lifecycle processes.