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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.\nFounded 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.\nBut while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. Backblaze is seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented Director of Security Operations to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform. \nRole Overview\nThe Director of Security Operations leads the organization's day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, the Director leads Security Operations while partnering closely with the Director of Security Architecture & Engineering.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.\nEstablish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs.\nServe as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events and ensure lessons learned drive improvements to controls and operations.\nDrive responsible adoption of AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.\nEnsure effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.\nUse automation to reduce manual work and compress detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.\nPartner with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.\nDevelop security talent and provide the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.\nQualifications\nExperience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.\nStrong technical understanding of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.\nExperience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and cross-functional response activities.\nExperience implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.\nStrong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills.\nExperience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.\nBackblaze Perks: \nHealthcare for family, including dental and vision\nCompetitive compensation and 401K \nRSU grants for full-time employees \nESPP program \nFlexible vacation policy \nMaternity & paternity leave \nMacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation \nChildcare bonus (human children only) \nFertility treatment and support \nLearning & development program \nCommuter benefits \nCulture that supports a healthy work-life balance \nTo 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.\nThe base pay range for this position is $205,000 - $230,000\nAt 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. 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