Backblaze External Website - Sr. Developer Relations Manager
Requirements
• Meaningful DevRel, developer marketing, or developer experience leadership at a cloud infrastructure, open source, or AI tooling company. You've built or significantly grown a developer program, not just contributed to one. • Understand how agentic workflows are reshaping how developers discover and integrate infrastructure tools — and you have opinions about what that means for DevRel strategy. • Technically credible. You can read a codebase, evaluate an SDK, write a working integration, and have a real conversation with an engineer about tradeoffs. You don't need to be a full-time SWE, but you need to have been one, or close to it. • Worked, or started, without a large team. You know how to amplify yourself through cross-functional relationships, external partners, and community rather than headcount. • Strong communicator — to developers externally and to leadership internally. You can write a crisp technical tutorial and a clear exec summary with equal ease. • Existing presence in developer communities. A following, conference talks, open source contributions, a technical blog — some signal that developers pay attention when you show up. • Strong plus: • Direct experience with model training, data processing or generative media • Familiarity with how coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) surface and recommend infrastructure tools • Experience working with or building on top of open source frameworks in the AI/ML ecosystem (MLflow, DVC, Ray Data, WebDataset, and MosaicML Streaming) • Prior experience running or contributing to a startup/developer program (accelerator, cohort model, or similar) • What You'll Have to Work With • You won't be starting from scratch. You'll work closely with: • A mature, capable docs team that can be directed toward agent-consumable documentation formats and structured reference content • docs team • A strong engineering team dedicated to integrating Backblaze into the AI tooling ecosystem — building connectors, working on external integrations, and driving internal product improvements for developer use cases • engineering team • Flamethrower, our startup program, which is already generating community energy and early-adopter signal among AI builders • Flamethrower • An outward-facing solutions engineering team that can extend your enablement work with hands-on technical support • solutions engineering team • A content org that can help produce and amplify developer-facing assets • content org • Active strategic work from Rawkode Academy laying the DevRel foundation: audit, persona validation, content models, and engagement strategy • Rawkode Academy
Benefits
• Developers are making storage decisions earlier in the stack than ever before — often before they've spoken to a salesperson, often through a coding agent recommending a reference architecture. Backblaze has the right product, the right price point, and a growing engineering investment behind this motion. What we need is the person who can translate that into developer conviction at scale. • The window to establish Backblaze as the default AI storage layer is open now. This role exists to make sure we don't miss it. • Healthcare for family, including dental and vision • Competitive compensation and 401K • RSU grants for full-time employees • Flexible vacation policy • Maternity & paternity leave • MacBook Pro plus a generous workstation stipend • Childcare bonus • Fertility treatment and support • Learning & development program • Commuter benefits • Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance • Pay Transparency • Pay Transparency • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. • The expected salary range for this role is $172,000 - $215,000 plus 20% target annual bonus and RSUs.
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