# Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customersuccess 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. Role Overview The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer designs, implements, and operates identity and access capabilities for human users, non-human identities, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. The role focuses on the subject side of access control-identity, authentication, roles, groups, entitlements, and privileges-with an emphasis on least pr

- **Id**: 3889725
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/backblaze-identity-access-management-iam-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T19:27:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:38:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5485
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Apple Macbook, Equity, Flexible vacation policy
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Storage, Cloud Storage & File Sharing, Backup & Disaster Recovery

## Company

- **Id**: 37551
- **Name**: Backblaze
- **Domain**: backblaze.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/backblaze>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.364
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 195000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 195000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T20:50:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 195000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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