Jobs at Backblaze

• Set technical direction and standards for observability across the organization, including instrumentation conventions, alerting philosophy, and dashboard design patterns.
• Mentor engineers on the Observability team and act as a technical resource for SRE, Storage Engineering, and Network Engineering on observability practice.

• Lead the full Computer Backup engineering team, which reports into this role, with Desktop and Backend Leads running the day-to-day of their areas.
• Set the long-term technical direction for Computer Backup, ensuring architecture and platform decisions hold up as the product and customer base grow.

• Meaningful DevRel, developer marketing, or developer experience leadership at a cloud infrastructure, open source, or AI tooling company. You've built or significantly grown a developer program, not just contributed to one.
• Understand how agentic workflows are reshaping how developers discover and integrate infrastruc...

• Database Architecture & Administration:

Design, deploy, and own highly available database architecture for Vitess (distributed MySQL) and Cassandra
Establish and document operational procedures, runbooks, and escalation guidance for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers
Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, schema design, and capacity planning
Own database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
Perform and validate disaster recovery testing and database recovery procedures
Drive database security, access control, patching, hardening, and compliance practices
Partner with the DBA and Data Infrastructure teams on resharding, capacity planning, replication, and architecture decisions for sharded MySQL environments

• Drive B2 product strategy and roadmap development through delivery execution.
• Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle from discovery through delivery in feature development.

• 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

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, defining vision and roadmap, leading discovery, and delivering high-quality features from concept through launch and iteration
• Conduct customer and market research, including interviews, usability testing, and competitive analysis, to uncover user needs, identify market opportunities, and shape product strategy

• Drive B2 product strategy and roadmap development through to delivery execution.
• Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle from discovery through delivery in feature development.