Developer Advocate - Backblaze

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success 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.

About The Role

This is a ground-floor developer relations role at a company that is serious about building a DevRel function — not just checking a box. You’ll be the technical voice of Backblaze: creating content, showing up at events, and helping developers understand how to build with Backblaze B2 in the workloads they’re actually running — AI pipelines, media workflows, and data-intensive infrastructure.

You’ll work directly with our Director of Startup & Developer Relations and alongside the Flamethrower Startup Program — Backblaze’s initiative to become the storage layer of choice for early-stage companies. You’ll have support from our product, content, documentation and other teams, as well as consulting budget for structural and strategic scaffolding as we build this out. Your job is to be technically credible, well-connected, and visible.

What You’ll Do

Technical Content & Education

• Create technical content that teaches developers how to build with Backblaze B2: tutorials, sample applications, reference architectures, blog posts, and short-form video.
• Build and publish working code examples and demos — especially for AI/ML workflows (training data pipelines, model artifact storage, inference infrastructure), media workflows, and application storage.
• Contribute to and improve developer documentation, SDKs, and quickstart guides.
• Translate what you’re hearing from developers into actionable product feedback for Engineering and Product.

Community & Events

• Be genuinely present in the developer communities where our users live — social media, Discord, Slack, GitHub, and elsewhere.
• Represent Backblaze at developer events: speak, demo, show up, and be worth talking to across AI/ML, media, cloud infrastructure, and startup ecosystems.
• Build relationships in the AI/ML, media, and cloud infrastructure developer communities that generate inbound awareness for Backblaze.
• Support Flamethrower startup cohort members in getting to production faster — answer technical questions, sanity-check architectures, and document patterns worth sharing broadly.

Program Contribution

• Work closely with the Director of Startup & Developer Relations, product team, lifecycle marketing, and product marketing to identify common technical blockers and create content that removes them.
• Partner with Marketing on ecosystem storytelling, technical blog strategy, and developer-facing content.
• Maintain a consistent feedback loop from developers to Product — surface friction points, integration gaps, and unmet needs.

The Right Fit

• 4–7 years of hands-on experience as a software developer or engineer, with meaningful time working with cloud infrastructure and object storage (S3, B2, GCS, or equivalent).
• Direct experience building or integrating AI/ML workflows that involve storage — training data pipelines, model artifact management, inference infrastructure, or similar workloads.
• You write working code and can explain it to another developer.
• An established presence in developer communities — a social following, conference talks, a technical blog, open source contributions, or similar.
• Strong written communication: you can write a clear technical tutorial and a crisp internal summary with equal ease.
• Self-directed approach to identifying what to build next.

Bonus Points For

• Familiarity with Backblaze B2 or direct experience with object storage in production environments.
• Experience with media/video workflows, SaaS backend architecture, or data-intensive platform development.
• Prior experience in a formal DevRel capacity.
• Active in the AI/ML developer ecosystem: Hugging Face, Discord communities, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, or similar channels.

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 plus a generous workstation stipend
• Childcare bonus
• Fertility treatment and support
• Learning & development program
• Commuter benefits
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance