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. You9ll 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 they9re actually running - AI pipelines, media workflows, and data-intensive infrastructure.

You9ll work directly with our Director of Startup & Developer Relations and alongside the Flamethrower Startup Program - Backblaze9s initiative to become the storage layer of choice for early-stage companies. You9ll 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.

The right person for this role has been doing this work informally - writing technical content, showing up at conferences, building a following in developer communities - and is ready to make it the job. Or they9ve been doing it formally at the mid-level and want to step up on impact without stepping into program leadership yet.
What You9ll 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 you9re 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. We attend conferences 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, as well as our 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. You may use AI tools to accelerate it - but you understand what you9re shipping 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 some combination. We9re not counting followers; we9re looking for signal that you show up and people pay attention
• Strong written communication: you can write a clear technical tutorial and a crisp internal summary with equal ease
• Self-directed - you don9t need a content calendar handed to you to know what to build next

Bonus Poins 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 - developer advocate, technical evangelist, developer educator - even if it wasn9t your primary title
• 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 to use for work, plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
• Childcare bonus (human children only)
• Fertility treatment and support
• Learning & development program
• Commuter benefits
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The expected salary range for this role is $96,000 - $136,000.