Sr. Software Engineer

Backblaze is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer to join their Organization Services team, building core backend services and APIs in Kotlin/Java ecosystem and working on front-end applications in React and Typescript. The role involves designing and building scalable backend services and APIs, developing core platform capabilities, and owning the full delivery lifecycle of the systems built. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience building and operating production backend services, and experience designing and evolving APIs and service interfaces. The role offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a culture that values thoughtful, sustainable engineering.

Requirements

• Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs in Kotlin and Java, with strong attention to performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Develop core platform capabilities, including organizational resource hierarchies and access policies.
• Partner with adjacent platform and product teams to integrate with authentication, storage, billing, and other shared systems.
• Write technical designs, break down ambiguous problems, and drive projects from concept through production rollout.
• Own the full delivery lifecycle for the systems you build, including schema design, migrations, testing strategy, deployment, observability, and operational readiness.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues involving distributed services, MySQL/Vitess, and cross-service dependencies.
• Improve system security, correctness, and developer velocity through thoughtful design, automation, and use of modern AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Contribute to engineering excellence through code review, design review, mentoring, and raising the technical bar across the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, QA, Support, Finance, and other partners to translate business and operational requirements into robust technical solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Benefits
• Culture that values thoughtful, sustainable engineering