Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Computer Backup

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $255k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Lead the full Computer Backup engineering team through Desktop and Backend Leads • Set the long-term technical direction and architecture for Computer Backup • Own the multi-quarter delivery strategy and partner with Product leadership on the roadmap • Manage team budget, headcount, tooling, and infrastructure investment • Make technical and organizational decisions with broad, long-term impact • Ensure desktop and backend areas operate with shared goals and consistent agile delivery • Oversee sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives • Own delivery from planning and design through implementation and post-launch support • Ensure reliability, performance, and maintainability of backup client and backend services • Grow unit testing and automated test coverage • Participate hands-on in code reviews, architecture decisions, and technical problem-solving • Champion AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding practices • Improve productivity by identifying bottlenecks and refining processes and tooling • Negotiate with senior leadership and major customers, represent the team in executive reviews, and communicate risks and trade-offs

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers or team leads • Experience in a cloud, SaaS, desktop software, or platform engineering environment • Experience setting long-term technical direction and system architecture • Experience owning multi-quarter technical and delivery strategy and shaping a product roadmap • Experience negotiating scope, schedule, and priorities with product and senior leadership • Accountability for a team or departmental budget, including resourcing and investment decisions • Deep experience with agile development processes, including scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, and retrospectives • Experience managing distributed, remote engineering teams, including async communication and remote collaboration • Strong software engineering background with deep expertise in system architecture • Command of the full software development lifecycle • Commitment to engineering quality, unit testing, and automated test coverage • Experience delivering software across desktop clients, backend services, or both • Excellent communication and negotiation skills • Familiarity with AI agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits • Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance • Learning, developing, and growing opportunities • Equal Opportunity Employer commitment • Flat, low-bureaucracy environment • Direct access to senior leadership