Backblaze
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Cloud Storage & File Sharing
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How Backblaze hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
62 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Backblaze scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 62 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 3
Overview
Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) is a leading cloud storage and data backup provider headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman, Tim Nufire, Billy Ng, Nilay Patel, Brian Wilson, Casey Jones, and Damon Uyeda, the company operates a proprietary, high-density hardware and software infrastructure platform). Its business model spans two primary offerings: Computer Backup and B2 Cloud Storage.
News
Backblaze to Present at AI Infra Summit 2026: Architecting the AI Data Plane
SAN FRANCISCO, September 14, 2026--Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance capacity storage layer for AI, will exhibit and present as a sponsor at AI Infra Summit 2026, Sept. 15-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. AI infrastructure teams
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Backblaze Announces Pricing of Upsized $175 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering
SAN FRANCISCO, August 20, 2026--Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the storage platform powering AI and data-intensive workloads, today announced the pricing of $175 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2031 (the "Notes")
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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least - Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST
Seagate a close second on most unreliable list
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Results from the Backblaze Generative AI Media Hackathon
Five generative media apps and the orchestration patterns that made them production-ready in the Backblaze Generative AI Media Hackathon.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026
Read the Q1 2026 Drive Stats Report to see the latest on failure rates of over 340,000 hard drives.
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Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Data Storage Agreement with CoreWeave
Read more about how the $335M strategic agreement between CoreWeave and Backblaze aligns to strong AI demand and establishes Backblaze as a key storage provider.
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Introducing Genblaze: A Python SDK for Generative Media Pipelines Genblaze: An Open-Source Python SDK for Multi-Provider Generative Media Pipelines
Genblaze is an open-source Python SDK from Backblaze for building generative media pipelines - one API across video, image, and audio providers, with swappable models, durable B2 storage, and SHA-256 provenance manifests on every run.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Backblaze over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
118
Postings analysed
45
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python29%
Java24%
SQL20%
TypeScript13%
Frameworks & libraries
Pytest11%
LangChain9%
LlamaIndex9%
OpenTelemetry4%
Databases
Snowflake11%
Cassandra11%
MySQL9%
OpenSearch7%
Cloud & platforms
Linux33%
GitHub27%
Amazon S320%
AWS20%
AI & ML
Claude13%
LLM9%
ChatGPT2%
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Full Backblaze tech stack
118 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$215k
Typical range
$72k – $264k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Junior
6.3%
Middle
18.8%
Senior
31.3%
Staff
18.8%
Principal
6.3%
Architect
18.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $72k | $72k |
| Middle | 3 | $160k | $150k – $175k |
| Senior | 5 | $200k | $150k – $264k |
| Staff | 3 | $226k | $215k – $230k |
| Principal | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Architect | 3 | $230k | $220k – $230k |
Highest paying role
Sr. Director of Commercial and Legal Affairs
$264k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Backblaze
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
31
8 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
18%
Legal
15% ▼
Backend
12% ▼
Product
12% ▲
Customer Success
9% ▲
Leadership
6%
Actively hiring for DevOps (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Costa Rica
Oct 2026
New location: Chile
Oct 2026
New location: Mexico
Oct 2026
New location: Colombia
Oct 2026
New location: Argentina
Oct 2026
Added Ray to stack
Sep 2026
Added MLFlow to stack
Sep 2026
Added Copilot to stack
Sep 2026
Added ComfyUI to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vault to stack
Sep 2026
Added SRE to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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San Mateo
United States
HQ
Corporate Office
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
Remote - Bangalore
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps
Chandler
United States
Regional office
Arizona Region
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $72k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success
Reston
United States
Regional office
Virginia Region
1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Stockton
United States
Regional office
Sacramento Region (SAC2)
Rancho Cordova
United States
Regional office
Sacramento Region (SAC0)
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
Corporate Mailing Address
2261 Market Street STE 81006, San Francisco, CA 94114
Jobs
≈ $121k – $223k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp
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Go
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$130k – $150k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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$172k – $215k per year • Equity • Remote (United States)
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Python
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Nomad
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CI/CD
Jenkins
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Docker
Kubernetes
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kubectl
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Linux
Cryptography
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Management
ITIL
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Apex
MuleSoft
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
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Platform Engineering
GitHub
API Gateway
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$225k – $250k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Amazon S3
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≈ $32k – $84k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica) • 7+ years exp • Argentina • Colombia • Mexico • Costa Rica
Python
PowerShell
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VPN
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Okta
Least Privilege
Management
Slack
Jira
Google Workspace
Gmail
ITIL
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$205k – $230k per year • Equity • Remote (United States)
JavaScript
Node JS
Commander.js
DevOps
IAM
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Remote (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica) • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Argentina • Colombia • Mexico • Costa Rica
Python
SQL
Bash
MySQL
Cassandra
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Configuration Management
kubectl
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
Management
ITIL
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