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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.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the availability, scalability, durability, and operational reliability of production systems. The role leads observability, incident response, SLO and error-budget practices, automation, infrastructure as code, and long-term service improvements. Responsibilities include designing monitoring and alerting frameworks, supporting Kubernetes and distributed storage environments, improving operational processes, collaborating across engineering and business teams, and mentoring reliability-focused practices. The position requires extensive experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, containers, scripting, storage systems, and large-scale production environments.

Own the architecture and evolution of Backblaze’s observability platform across multiple data centers. Lead metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes deployments, Ceph monitoring, and network observability. Establish technical standards, capacity strategies, documentation, and operational practices while mentoring engineers and partnering across SRE, storage, network, security, and application teams. Evaluate AIOps and agentic AI solutions to improve incident detection, correlation, and response.

Leads enterprise security program planning and delivery across engineering, product, legal, and vendors. Manages timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, dashboards, and executive reporting for multiple concurrent initiatives. Coordinates incident response follow-up, improves cross-functional processes, and influences technical teams without direct authority. Requires strong communication, analytical, agile program management, and risk-assessment skills, with comfort operating during incidents and ambiguity.

Leads the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop clients and backend services. Sets technical architecture and multi-quarter delivery strategy, manages budget and organizational growth, and partners with Product and senior leadership on priorities. Oversees agile execution, software quality, reliability, testing, releases, and production support. Participates in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving while driving adoption of AI-assisted development practices across a distributed, remote-first team.

Lead Backblaze’s developer relations strategy and establish B2 as the preferred storage layer for AI and agent-led projects. Coordinate engineering, documentation, content, solutions engineering, and startup-program resources; build credibility across developer communities, open source projects, events, and AI tooling ecosystems. Create feedback loops with product and engineering, define adoption and conversion metrics, produce technical content, and grow developer mindshare, engagement, signups, and usage.

Own the reliability, scalability, and administration of production Vitess/MySQL and Cassandra databases. Design highly available architectures, replication, backup, recovery, security, and disaster recovery strategies. Lead incident response, on-call operations, monitoring, SLO development, root cause analysis, and production readiness reviews. Automate database and infrastructure operations using scripting, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins. Establish runbooks, escalation procedures, training materials, and mentor junior database SREs while partnering across engineering and infrastructure teams.

Lead B2 cloud object storage product strategy, roadmap, discovery, and delivery. Translate customer and market needs into product requirements, collaborate with Design, Engineering, and go-to-market teams, launch features, track product metrics, and evangelize solutions. The role requires deep cloud architecture, API, security, compliance, and product lifecycle expertise, along with strong cross-functional leadership and customer research capabilities.