Developer Advocate

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.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Developer Advocate  to join our team!

About The Role

This is a ground-floor developer relations role at a company that is serious about building a DevRel function - not just checking a box. You’ll be the technical voice of Backblaze: creating content, showing up at events, and helping developers understand how to build with Backblaze B2 in the workloads they’re actually running - AI pipelines, media workflows, and data-intensive infrastructure.

You’ll work directly with our Director of Startup & Developer Relations and alongside the Flamethrower Startup Program - Backblaze’s initiative to become the storage layer of choice for early-stage companies. You’ll have support from our product, content, documentation and other teams, as well as consulting budget for structural and strategic scaffolding as we build this out. Your job is to be technically credible, well-connected, and visible.

The right person for this role has been doing this work informally - writing technical content, showing up at conferences, building a following in developer communities - and is ready to make it the job. Or they’ve been doing it formally at the mid-level and want to step up on impact without stepping into program leadership yet.

What You’ll Do:

Technical Content & Education

• Create technical content that teaches developers how to build with Backblaze B2: tutorials, sample applications, reference architectures, blog posts, and short-form video
• Build and publish working code examples and demos - especially for AI/ML workflows (training data pipelines, model artifact storage, inference infrastructure), media workflows, and application storage
• Contribute to and improve developer documentation, SDKs, and quickstart guides
• Translate what you’re hearing from developers into actionable product feedback for Engineering and Product

Community & Events

• Be genuinely present in the developer communities where our users live - social media, Discord, Slack, GitHub, and elsewhere
• Represent Backblaze at developer events: speak, demo, show up, and be worth talking to. We attend conferences across AI/ML, media, cloud infrastructure, and startup ecosystems
• Build relationships in the AI/ML, media, and cloud infrastructure developer communities that generate inbound awareness for Backblaze
• Support Flamethrower startup cohort members in getting to production faster - answer technical questions, sanity-check architectures, and document patterns worth sharing broadly

Program Contribution

• Work closely with the Director of Startup & Developer Relations, as well as our product team, lifecycle marketing, and product marketing to identify common technical blockers and create content that removes them
• Partner with Marketing on ecosystem storytelling, technical blog strategy, and developer-facing content
• Maintain a consistent feedback loop from developers to Product - surface friction points, integration gaps, and unmet needs

The Right Fit:

• 4-7 years of hands-on experience as a software developer or engineer, with meaningful time working with cloud infrastructure and object storage (S3, B2, GCS, or equivalent)
• Direct experience building or integrating AI/ML workflows that involve storage - training data pipelines, model artifact management, inference infrastructure, or similar workloads
• You write working code. You may use AI tools to accelerate it - but you understand what you’re shipping and can explain it to another developer
• An established presence in developer communities - a social following, conference talks, a technical blog, open source contributions, or some combination. We’re not counting followers; we’re looking for signal that you show up and people pay attention
• Strong written communication: you can write a clear technical tutorial and a crisp internal summary with equal ease
• Self-directed - you don’t need a content calendar handed to you to know what to build next

Bonus Points For:

• Familiarity with Backblaze B2 or direct experience with object storage in production environments
• Experience with media/video workflows, SaaS backend architecture, or data-intensive platform development
• Prior experience in a formal DevRel capacity - developer advocate, technical evangelist, developer educator - even if it wasn’t your primary title
• Active in the AI/ML developer ecosystem: Hugging Face, Discord communities, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, or similar channels

Backblaze Perks: 

• Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
• Competitive compensation and 401K  
• RSU grants for full-time employees 
• ESPP program  
• Flexible vacation policy 
• Maternity & paternity leave 
• MacBook Pro to use for work, plus a generous stipend to personalize your  workstation 
• Childcare bonus (human children only) 
• Fertility treatment and support 
• Learning & development program 
• Commuter benefits 
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance 

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The expected salary range for this role is $96,000 - $136,000.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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