Software Engineer - Storage
About the role
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 Be Doing
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
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to clear design documents
- Contribute to the maintenance of existing applications and participate in the implementation of new features
- Instrument services, develop metrics and drive durability and performance improvements
- Help shape coding methodologies and best practices
The Right Fit
- 4+ years of OOP (Java, Rust, C++, C#, etc) in an enterprise environment, with a 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 analytical thinking to ambiguous problems
Bonus Points For
- Proficiency in Java or Rust
- Experience building and interpreting models, dashboards, or reports
- Familiarity with hard drive performance
- Understanding of Linux internals and file systems