Teams at Backblaze

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.