Manager, Software Engineering

**About Backblaze** Backblaze provides reliable, high\-availability cloud storage trusted by consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and developers in over 150 countries. Our B2 Cloud Storage platform supports data\-intensive workloads including backup, media, analytics, and modern AI pipelines. We build durable, scalable systems with a strong emphasis on developer experience, product quality, and operational efficiency. **Role Overview:** We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead an engineering team contributing to Backblaze cloud services. Your team will work across both customer\-facing features and platform infrastructure, collaborating closely with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to ship reliable, high\-quality software. This is a hands\-on management role. You are expected to participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decisions. The right candidate brings deep expertise in system architecture, a strong grasp of the full software development lifecycle, and proven ability to lead distributed, remote\-first engineering teams. You bring 3\+ years of engineering management experience and genuine enthusiasm for how AI\-assisted development is changing the way software gets built. **What You'll Do:** * Lead and grow a team of software engineers contributing to Backblaze cloud services, spanning both customer\-facing features and underlying infrastructure. * Own the software development lifecycle for your team: planning, design, implementation, and post\-launch support, partnering with QA and release teams for testing and delivery. * Contribute to feature development and infrastructure improvements that expand Backblaze cloud service capabilities for developers, enterprises, and AI workloads. * Ensure the reliability and maintainability of cloud service components through ongoing support, bug fixes, and technical debt management. * Participate hands\-on in code reviews, architecture decisions, and technical problem\-solving alongside your team. * Partner with Product Management to shape roadmap priorities and long\-term strategy, bringing engineering perspective and data to influence decisions, and translate agreed priorities into well\-scoped plans with clear milestones. * Work closely with QA and release engineering teams to ensure smooth handoffs, clear acceptance criteria, and high\-quality delivery. * Champion the effective use of AI\-assisted development tools; actively guide team members in adopting agentic coding practices and help establish team norms around AI\-augmented workflows. * Continuously improve team productivity: identify bottlenecks, refine processes, and invest in tooling, practices, and team habits that help engineers do their best work. * Conduct regular 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, support career development, and lead hiring to grow and strengthen the team. **Tools and Technologies:** * Backend development: familiarity with server\-side languages and