Backblaze

Backblaze

Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low-cost cloud backup and storage services, offering enterprise hot storage, low-cost backup and archive solutions. With the easiest way to back up all files, Backblaze provides unlimited, unthrottled, and unc...

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs in Kotlin and Java with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Develop core platform capabilities such as organizational resource hierarchies and access policies.
  • Partner with adjacent platform and product teams to integrate with authentication, storage, billing, and other shared systems.
  • Write technical designs, break down ambiguous problems, and drive projects from concept through production rollout.
  • Own the full delivery lifecycle, including schema design, migrations, testing strategy, deployment, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving distributed services, MySQL/Vitess, and cross-service dependencies.
  • Improve system security, correctness, and developer velocity through thoughtful design, automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools.
  • Contribute to engineering excellence through code review, design review, mentoring, and raising the technical bar.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, QA, Support, Finance, and other partners to translate business and operational needs into technical solutions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating production backend services.
  • Strong experience with Java and/or Kotlin in a production environment.
  • Experience designing and evolving APIs and service interfaces, including compatibility, migrations, and staged rollouts.
  • Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems and debugging issues in production.
  • Strong foundation in data modeling and relational database development, including MySQL or similar systems.
  • Experience with containerized development and deployment environments.
  • Experience with observability practices and tools for metrics, logging, and operational debugging.
  • Sound judgment in secure system design, access control, and backend application security fundamentals.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical work across the full software development lifecycle.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for collaboration across engineering and non-engineering partners.
  • Preferred: Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC, including schema evolution and service design.
  • Preferred: Experience with Vitess, sharded relational systems, or other large-scale SQL platforms.
  • Preferred: Experience building identity, access management, policy, or authorization systems.
  • Preferred: Experience working across a polyglot stack that includes backend and TypeScript-based clients and tooling.
  • Preferred: Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini, or similar.
  • Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate project area.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Opportunity to work on foundational platform and security capabilities used by customers worldwide.
  • Work on technically meaningful problems at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, identity, authorization, and scale.
  • Collaborate with experienced engineers, product leaders, and security partners.
  • Culture that values thoughtful, sustainable engineering.
  • Encouragement to apply even if you do not meet every requirement.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with an Equal Opportunity Employer stance.

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