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title: 'Director of Security Operations at Backblaze External Website'
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# Director of Security Operations at Backblaze External Website

- **Company:** Backblaze External Website
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/backblaze/jobs/5378711008

## Job description

Director, Security Operations

## Role Overview

The 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.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.
- Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs.
- Serve as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events and ensure lessons learned drive improvements to controls and operations.
- Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.
- Ensure effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.
- Use automation to reduce manual work and compress detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.
- Partner with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.
- Develop security talent and provide the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.

## Qualifications

- Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.
- Strong technical understanding of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.
- Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and cross-functional response activities.
- Experience implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.

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 base pay range for this position is $205,000 - $230,000

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.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our [Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d32de856f6323a43a277f2/64b0660cd90ac9b4953f7f1d_Backblaze_HR_Employee_Related_Privacy_Notice.pdf)

## About Backblaze External Website

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Backblaze provides an independent cloud storage platform offering high-performance object storage, backup, and data management solutions to businesses and individuals worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: BLZE on Nasdaq)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Gleb Budman, Tim Nufire, Billy Ng, Damon Uyeda, Casey Jones, Brian Wilson, Nilay Patel, Anuj Kumar (seven co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cloud storage, data backup, and object storage infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – serving over 500,000 customers in 175 countries, including enterprises, SMBs, and individual users.
- **Mission statement**: “To make customers unstoppable by solving their toughest data storage challenges.”

## Products & Services
- **Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage**: S3-compatible object storage designed for high-performance AI workflows, data-heavy applications, media management, and data protection. Offers advanced features like Event Notifications.
- **Backblaze Computer Backup**: Automated cloud backup for personal computers and small businesses.
- **Backblaze Cloud Backup**: Enterprise-grade backup for servers and cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources. As a public company (BLZE), current financials are available via SEC filings.
- **Key Metric**: Over 5 exabytes (5,053,404,320,000,000,000 bytes) of data storage under management; scaled with less than $3 million in outside funding until its 2021 IPO.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Minimal outside funding pre-IPO; no specific investors listed in provided sources. The company emphasizes its independence from hyperscaler clouds.
- **Growth Signals**: Remote-first global team; data centers in the US and Europe; expanding engineering and operations roles; growing customer base across 175 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independent cloud platform**: Not tied to the major hyperscalers, offering interoperability and freedom from lock-in.
- **S3-compatible API**: Simplifies integration with existing tools and workflows.
- **Engineered for efficiency**: Cost-effective storage built on a proprietary, lean infrastructure.
- **Sustainable business model**: “Rationally frugal” approach with focus on profitability and long-term success.
- **Cleverly unconventional culture**: Encourages novel solutions and simplicity.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating AI workloads and data-heavy applications with high-performance object storage.
- Expanding interoperability and advanced features (Event Notifications, S3 compatibility).
- Continuing to grow the remote-first, distributed engineering and operations team.
- Maintaining a sustainable, profitable growth trajectory.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: Work from anywhere in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia (India, Philippines). Great work can happen anywhere.
- **Culture and values**: Emphasis on transparency, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Values include “open communication,” “focus on easy,” “fair & good,” and “sustainable business.”
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive healthcare for family, dental & vision, 401(k) retirement plan, equity in a growing company, flexible paid time off, parental leave and reintegration support, learning & development program.
- **Engineering culture**: Teams include Site Reliability, Software Engineering (AI, backend, storage, security), QA, Developer Productivity, and more. Strong focus on solving complex storage challenges.

## Sources
1. [Backblaze Careers Page](https://www.backblaze.com/company/jobs)
2. [Backblaze About Page](https://www.backblaze.com/company/about)
3. [Backblaze Job Listings on Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/backblaze/jobs/5189029008)
4. [Backblaze LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/backblaze)

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