Backblaze

Technical Recruiter

• Own full-cycle recruiting for primarily technical roles, including engineering and infrastructure, with flexibility to support non-technical roles
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, hiring strategy, and ideal candidate profiles
• Source, engage, and attract technical talent across LATAM and U.S. markets using AI-first sourcing tools and other channels
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines across key regions and talent segments
• Conduct initial screens assessing technical alignment, experience, and culture fit
• Deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process
• Manage candidate pipelines and activity in Greenhouse, ensuring accurate tracking and communication
• Collaborate with recruiters to support global hiring efforts
• Provide light coordination support across regions for smooth interview processes
• Use data and metrics to track pipeline health, identify bottlenecks, and improve recruiting strategies

Senior Technical Recruiter – 6-month Contract

Developer Relations

• Define Backblaze B2's developer presence in the agentic stack
• Work with the internal AI team to define and execute an agent-ready strategy across engineering, documentation, and content
• Coordinate engineering, docs, content, solutions engineering, and other teams around a unified developer strategy
• Share developer strategy outputs with the broader world
• Build credibility in GitHub, Discord, open source projects, developer events, and AI infrastructure tooling communities
• Elevate internal technical voices and develop thought leadership
• Partner with ecosystem players
• Maintain a feedback loop from developers to product and engineering
• Surface adoption friction, unmet integration needs, and emerging priorities
• Use the Flamethrower Startup Program as a source of early-adopter feedback
• Define success metrics including developer signups, activation rates, B2 adoption in AI frameworks, community engagement, and content reach
• Connect awareness metrics to revenue and conversion
• Start as an individual contributor with influence across existing company resources

Senior Developer Relations Manager

DevOps Engineer

• 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 DBA and Data Infrastructure teams on resharding, capacity planning, replication, and architecture decisions for sharded MySQL environments
• Support availability and durability of critical services across production environments
• Monitor service health using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Serve as an escalation point for complex database production incidents
• Develop automation for operational and database administration tasks
• Contribute to monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks including Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint, and ELK
• Integrate operational runbooks and incident response workflows with FireHydrant
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins
• Develop scripts using Bash, Python, Go, or similar technologies
• Operate and troubleshoot containerized production environments using Kubernetes and Docker
• Lead Production Readiness Reviews and support operational readiness of new database-backed services
• Build training plans, onboarding materials, and technical documentation for Level 1 and Level 2 SRE Database Engineers
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and DBA/Data Infrastructure teams on reliability initiatives
• Assist with capacity planning, disaster recovery exercises, database migrations, and infrastructure projects
• Work with vendors and service providers to troubleshoot service issues and track SLA performance
• Respond to and resolve production database, infrastructure, and service incidents
• Troubleshoot and escalate database, Linux, networking, application, and infrastructure issues
• Identify recurring issues and develop long-term corrective actions to improve reliability

Site Reliability Engineer III, DBA

Product Manager

• 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.
• Gather and synthesize inputs for discovery and prioritization from internal functions, customers, and partners across R&D, including feature capabilities, user experience challenges, cost optimization, and technical debt.
• Translate complex customer challenges into actionable product requirements with Design, Engineering, and GTM teams.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to launch and drive adoption of new products and features.
• Act as a subject matter expert and evangelist for Backblaze solutions, presenting to customers, prospects, partners, and internal teams.
• Establish and track product KPIs, using data to guide iteration and growth decisions.
• Maintain deep understanding of object storage market advancements, customer use cases, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities and maintain market leadership.

Senior Technical Recruiter – 6-month Contract

Senior Developer Relations Manager

Site Reliability Engineer III, DBA

Principal Product Manager