Developer Advocate

Backblaze External Website

3h•Remote

About The Position

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. 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 they’ve been doing it formally at the mid-level and want to step up on impact without stepping into program leadership yet.

Requirements

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 you’re 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. We’re not counting followers; we’re 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 don’t need a content calendar handed to you to know what to build next

Nice To Haves

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 wasn’t your primary title
Active in the AI/ML developer ecosystem: Hugging Face, Discord communities, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, or similar channels

Responsibilities

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
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
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

Benefits

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