Teams at Backblaze

Design and build data infrastructure automation, observability, health tooling, dashboards, and system improvements for large-scale object storage platforms. Lead technical designs and feature rollouts across services, improve fleet stability and throughput, automate hardware lifecycle processes, and partner with on-call teams to reduce operational toil and incidents.

Leads Backblaze’s NeoCloud sales segment, owning quota, pipeline, forecasting, multi-year contract value, account expansion, and executive relationships. Builds the go-to-market strategy, identifies and pursues priority accounts, negotiates SLAs, IP, revenue share, and infrastructure-as-a-service agreements, and partners with CTO, engineering, operations, and strategic partnerships teams. Hires and coaches quota-carrying sellers while personally closing complex CXO-level deals with AI infrastructure providers and cloud companies.

Own new-logo sales pursuits across named neocloud accounts, from prospecting and technical discovery through contract closure and customer handoff. Build relationships from infrastructure engineers to executives, coordinate Sales Engineering, Field CTO, partnerships, legal, operations, and engineering teams, and negotiate complex multi-year agreements, SLAs, IP, and revenue-sharing terms. Maintain accurate pipeline forecasts and support account expansion after launch.