Senior Software Engineer

🕒 May 2

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Backblaze

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5M Series A on 2012-07

Cloud Storage • eCommerce • Enterprise

Backblaze is a cloud storage company that provides scalable and secure data backup solutions for both businesses and individuals. Their B2 Cloud Storage service offers S3 compatible object storage, allowing users to easily protect and manage their data with transparent pricing. Backblaze specializes in automatic and unlimited backup services for computer systems, ensuring data protection and recovery options for users, while also supporting integration with applications for enhanced functionality.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs in Kotlin and Java, with strong attention to performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. • Develop core platform capabilities, including organizational resource hierarchies and access policies. • Partner with adjacent platform and product teams to integrate with authentication, storage, billing, and other shared systems. • Write technical designs, break down ambiguous problems, and drive projects from concept through production rollout. • Own the full delivery lifecycle for the systems you build, including schema design, migrations, testing strategy, deployment, observability, and operational readiness. • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving distributed services, MySQL/Vitess, and cross-service dependencies. • Improve system security, correctness, and developer velocity through thoughtful design, automation, and use of modern AI-assisted engineering tools. • Contribute to engineering excellence through code review, design review, mentoring, and raising the technical bar across the team. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, QA, Support, Finance, and other partners to translate business and operational requirements into robust technical solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating production backend services. • Strong experience with Java and/or Kotlin in a production environment. • Experience designing and evolving APIs and service interfaces, including compatibility, migrations, and staged rollouts. • Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems and debugging issues in production. • Strong foundation in data modeling and relational database development, including MySQL or similar systems. • Experience with containerized development and deployment environments. • Experience with observability practices and tools for metrics, logging, and operational debugging. • Sound judgment in secure system design, access control, and backend application security fundamentals. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical work across the full software development lifecycle. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and non-engineering partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Benefits • Culture that values thoughtful, sustainable engineering