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title: 'Software Engineer, Open Source AI at Backblaze External Website'
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# Software Engineer, Open Source AI at Backblaze External Website

- **Company:** Backblaze External Website
- **Location:** Colombia / Costa Rica / Mexico
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/backblaze/jobs/5398676008

## Job description

## About Backblaze

Backblaze provides reliable, high-availability cloud storage trusted by consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and developers in over 150 countries. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage supports data-intensive workloads including backup, media, analytics, and modern AI pipelines. Our teams focus on building durable, scalable systems with a strong emphasis on developer experience and operational efficiency.

## Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain open source AI integrations, frameworks, and example applications that make Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage a natural part of how AI workflows are constructed and deployed. This is a front-row seat to the AI ecosystem as it evolves, working directly with the latest AI startups, open source frameworks, and developer tools. This role is expected to actively use the latest AI coding agents and tools as part of everyday development work.

The primary objective is to build and contribute production-quality open source integrations, new frameworks, and end-to-end example applications that demonstrate how B2 supports AI workflows. A practical understanding of AI workflows, agent-based systems, and data orchestration is required. This role demands continuous learning and hands-on testing of emerging AI frameworks and APIs as they mature, and is best suited for someone genuinely excited to work at the forefront of AI development.

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Implement and maintain open source AI integrations, frameworks and example applications using languages commonly used in the open source ecosystem, including Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust.
- Build and maintain public sample applications, SDK extensions, notebooks, and reference implementations demonstrating AI and cloud storage best practices.
- Use AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, to accelerate implementation while validating correctness, security, and performance.
- Contribute to open source projects through code contributions, issue triage, reviews, and ongoing maintenance.
- Ensure all open source assets meet high standards for testing, documentation, reproducibility, and developer usability.
- Maintain clean, well-structured GitHub repositories intended for external adoption and community contribution.
- Collaborate with Product and QA to ensure integrations reflect real customer AI workflows and Backblaze B2 usage patterns.

Tools and Technologies

- Languages: Python, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript and other open source languages
- Backblaze B2 SDKs and REST APIs
- Open source AI frameworks and tooling
- AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, Antigravity and Codex
- Jupyter and Google Colab notebooks
- GitHub, pytest, CI pipelines

## What We’re Looking For

- Software engineer with experience contributing to open source projects in one or more widely used open source languages.
- Comfortable owning and maintaining public repositories with external users and contributors.
- Practical understanding of AI workflows, including data ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and agent-based systems.
- Experience writing production-quality code with strong testing and documentation practices.
- Strong written communication skills with a focus on developer experience and adoption.

## Why Backblaze

- Build open source software used by developers worldwide.
- Work at the intersection of AI, data, and cloud storage.
- Collaborate with experienced engineering, product, and QA teams.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance.

Backblaze is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace.

## 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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