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About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a B2 Principal Product Manager to join our team! About the Role We are seeking an ambitious and accomplished Principal Product Manager to join our Product team. Backblaze’s B2 cloud object storage offers multi-exabyte, S3-compatible, globally available object storage that unlocks app builder innovation across AI neoclouds and traditional hyperscalers at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud infrastructure hyperscalers. The Principal Product Manager for B2 will work closely with key stakeholders to understand the evolution of cloud storage and the customer problems in the space, and determine product strategies and roadmap to address those problems. This person will work independently to lead efforts for new feature discovery and delivery, as well as improvements to execute on those strategies. Understanding customer problems through interviews and market research, and translating them into requirements, is critical. What You'll Do Drive B2 product strategy and roadmap development through delivery execution. Lead the end-to-end pro

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customersuccess with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. Backblaze is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager. Role Overview: We are seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager to join a growing Security team, with focus on program delivery, driving portfolio management and operating model practices for Backblaze. Key Responsibilities: Lead end-to-end planning and execution of enterprise security programs (e.g., vulnerability management, incident response readiness, identity and access management, data protection, cloud security) from initiation through delivery Communicate technical security concepts and program status clearly to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders Develop and maintain detailed program plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation across multiple concurrent security initiatives Identify, track, and mitigate program risks and dependencies, escalating blockers to leadership with clear options and recommendations Drive cross-functional coordination between engineering, product, legal, and third-party vendors to ensure secu

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $125m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Sr Desktop Support Analyst to join our team! What You’ll Do: Desktop & End-User Support Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 technical support for employees across macOS and Windows environments. Diagnose and resolve complex hardware, operating system, application, network connectivity, authentication, and peripheral issues. Serve as an escalation point for difficult or high-impact support incidents. Support employees through the complete technology lifecycle, including onboarding, role changes, hardware replacements, and offboarding. Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain laptops, desktops, mobile devices, peripherals, and related workplace technology. Provide remote support to employees across geographically distributed locations. Maintain a high level of professionalism and customer service while communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical users. Endpoint Management Administer and support Jamf for macOS device management, including enrollment, policies, profiles, software deployment, patching,

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. 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 Director of Security Operations to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform. Role Overview The Director of Security Operations leads the organization's day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, the Director leads Security Operations while partnering closely with the Director of Security Architecture & Engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs. Key Responsibilities Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience. Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs. Serve as inciden

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Sr. Reliability Engineer ll (DBA) to join our team! About the Role We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a DBA (Database Administration) focus to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems - primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra - alongside the rest of our services and infrastructure. This role operates within procedures and runbooks established by our senior DBA SREs, and focuses on building automation, maintaining observability, and supporting incident response to keep customer-facing systems performing at their best. The SRE will collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed reliability practices into day-to-day development and operations while contributing to tools and processes that improve efficiency and reduce manual effort Key Responsibilities Database Administration Operating and maintaining high-availability database systems — primarily Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra — against established architecture and runbooks. Op

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we're helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $125M in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. Role Overview Backblaze is seeking a Director, Enterprise Systems & Architecture to own the technical vision, architecture, and operations of the company’s enterprise systems and emerging AI use cases. This is a senior leadership role with organization-wide scope — spanning commercial and financial systems, GTM technology, data architecture, and the deployment and governance of AI agents across the business. This leader will serve as the company’s architectural authority for enterprise platforms including Salesforce, NetSuite, Zendesk, Snowflake, and their surrounding integration ecosystem. Equally important, they will support the governed infrastructure layer that enables AI agents, automated workflows, and headless capabilities to operate safely at a public company. They will partner closely with the CRO, CISO, and CFO organizations to enable velocity while ensuring systems are compliant, auditable, and built to scale. The ideal candidate combines deep enterprise architecture expertise with hands-on platform engineering instincts and practical experience deploying AI agents in production environments. This is a build-and-operate role, no

Company Description: Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. What You'll Do: You will work on our storage platform which supports the B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup products, responsible for reliably storing the customer data. You will help improve durability, increase throughput, and drive architectural changes to support the long term requirements of our service. Responsibilities: Lead technical design discussions and produce clear design documents Drive the implementation on large features Shape coding methodologies and best practices The Right Fit: 7+ years of OOP (Java, Rust, C++, C#, etc) in an enterprise environment, with a heavy focus on backend development Experience building large scale software systems running on thousands of servers Professional experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code) Comfortable with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout Exhibits curiosity and seeks to understand before offering solutions Communicates proactively in a remote environment by keeping the team informed, surfacing blockers early, and moving work forward Applies analytic

ISV Partnerships Manager Remote - US Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we're helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud — managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking an: ISV Partnerships Manager! About the Role One of the fastest-growing adoption paths for Backblaze B2 is ISV integration across App & Infrastructure and Data & AI platforms. When a storage, backup, or data platform ships B2 as a validated storage endpoint, every customer that platform sells becomes a potential B2 customer without a single outbound motion. That is the flywheel. This role owns the work of building B2 into the default storage layer for the ISV applications that serve App & Infrastructure and Data & AI workflows. You will own the ISV partnership program from signed integration to co-sell to joint reference architecture — and you will extend Flamethrower, our developer relations program, into the ISV ecosystem to create technical pull. This is a role for someone who is technically credible enough to lead an integration architecture review, and commercially sharp enough to run the sales and strategic relationship side of the partnership. You will inherit a mix of established ISV relati

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. What You'll Do: You will work on our storage platform which supports the B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup products, responsible for reliably storing the customer data. You will develop host-managed SMR support for the storage platform, optimizing for throughput and costs. Responsibilities: Lead technical design discussions and produce clear design documents Drive the implementation on large features Shape coding methodologies and best practices The Right Fit: 10+ years of OOP (Java, Rust, C++, C#, etc) in an enterprise environment, with a heavy focus on backend development Experience building host-managed SMR support for storage systems Experience benchmarking IO performance and resolving bottlenecks Experience building large scale software systems running on thousands of servers Professional experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code) Comfortable with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout Exhibits curiosity and seeks to understand before offering solutions Communicates proactively in a remote environment by keeping t

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. About the Role We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE II) to help ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of our services and infrastructure. This role focuses on building automation, maintaining observability, and supporting incident response to keep customer-facing systems performing at their best. The SRE will collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed reliability practices into day-to-day development and operations while contributing to tools and processes that improve efficiency and reduce manual effort. Key Responsibilities Service Reliability & Operations Support the availability and durability of critical services across production environments. Monitor service health using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and escalate issues when thresholds are at risk. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews to drive service improvements. Follow established ITIL/OSS processes (incident, change, problem, and capacity management). Automation & Tooling Develop automation for common operational tasks, reducing manual intervention and toil. Contribute to monitoring,

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking an AI Workflow Engineer ! About the Role: Backblaze is running a company-wide AI transformation program, and this role is where strategy becomes something you can actually use. As AI Workflow Engineer, you will be the hands-on builder inside the AI Program Office - embedded alongside the Director, AI Enablement, and deployed into non-GTM, non-Engineering business teams to prototype, build, and ship AI-powered workflow solutions that make a measurable difference in how work gets done. This is not a research role or a strategy role. You will spend your time building: prompt architectures, automation flows, lightweight agents, API integrations, and demos that help a business team see - concretely - what AI can do for them. You will move across functions, which means you need to understand how businesses actually operate. The ideal background is someone who started in a business-facing role - finance, operations, marketing, customer success, HR - and developed serious hands-on AI and automation skills on top of that foundation. You will work closely with

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. 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. About the Role: This role ensures that Backblaze’s storage clusters, compute systems, and network infrastructure scale reliably, cost-efficiently, and ahead of demand. You will build and maintain predictive models, ensure consistent supply and demand alignment, and partner cross-functionally to inform strategic investment and deployment decisions. . This is a high-impact role within Cloud Operations, directly contributing to service availability, durability, performance, margin optimization, and long-term platform scalability. Key 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 in

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Sr. AI Security Engineer to join our team! About The Role Backblaze is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to design and implement safeguards for internal AI usage , with a focus on agentic systems, developer protection, and runtime security . This is a hands-on role for a practitioner who has built and deployed security controls , not just defined policy. You will enable teams to safely use AI by creating enforcement layers, identity controls, and detection capabilities that constrain and monitor AI-driven activity. What You’ll Do: Agentic AI Safeguards Architect and implement guardrails for tool-using AI systems , including: Tool access controls and allowlists Context and memory isolation Step-level validation of agent actions Apply mitigations aligned to the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 (e.g., prompt injection, unsafe tool use, data leakage, excessive autonomy) Runtime Security Controls Build enforcement mechanisms that govern AI behavior at execution time: Interceptors, proxies, or middleware for tool/API calls Policy decision and enforcement laye

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. Our simple, automatic, and reliable Computer Backup product helped lay the foundation for this growth and continues to protect customer data around the world. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Product Manager , Computer Backup to join our team! About the Role We are looking for a Product Manager to lead strategy, execution, and growth for Backblaze’s Computer Backup product across consumer and business offerings. This role will own the roadmap for our desktop backup clients, web experiences, and associated admin tools. This is a highly hands-on role on a small, focused team. You will need to make thoughtful decisions about where to invest resources, align stakeholders around clear priorities, and drive progress through influence, collaboration, and conviction. Success in this role requires strong product instincts, data-informed decision making, and the ability to bring cross-functional teams together around a shared vision. What You’ll Do Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, defining vision and roadmap, leading discovery, and delivering high-quality features from concept t

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We're seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager! What You'll Do: We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to join a growing PMO team, with focus on program delivery, driving portfolio management and operating model practices for Backblaze. Drive program planning and execution through program management best practices, manage risk and dependencies across multiple programs and teams Drive portfolio management practices as required, which includes overseeing the portfolio delivery pipeline across multiple projects, from incoming requests to evaluation/discovery to successful delivery Ensure cross-functional alignment on program goals, strategy, scope, timelines, decisions and outcomes Apply your “T” in TPM (technical skill set) as an active contributor in technical requirements and design conversations with the program teams Foster a culture of transparency and trust, apply lean value-driven approach, manage by influence, support and empower technical teams through servant leadership Ensure strong lines of communication and regular updates to stakeh