Backblaze External Website - Software Engineer, Open Source AI
Requirements
• Software engineer with experience contributing to open source projects in one or more widely used open source languages. • Comfortable owning and maintaining public repositories with external users and contributors. • Practical understanding of AI workflows, including data ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and agent-based systems. • Experience writing production-quality code with strong testing and documentation practices. • Strong written communication skills with a focus on developer experience and adoption.
Responsibilities
• Use AI coding agents to build coding harnesses to accelerate the development, testing, and maintenance of public and internal applications, SDKs, notebooks, and reference implementations that demonstrate AI and cloud storage best practices. • Implement and maintain open source AI integrations, frameworks and example applications using languages commonly used in the open source ecosystem, including Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust. • Use AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, to accelerate implementation while validating correctness, security, and performance. • Contribute to open source projects through code contributions, issue triage, reviews, and ongoing maintenance. • Ensure all open source assets meet high standards for testing, documentation, reproducibility, and developer usability. • Maintain clean, well-structured GitHub repositories intended for external adoption and community contribution. • Collaborate with Product and QA to ensure integrations reflect real customer AI workflows and Backblaze B2 usage patterns. • Tools and Technologies • Languages: Python, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript and other open source languages • Backblaze B2 SDKs and REST APIs • Open source AI frameworks and tooling • AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, Antigravity and Codex • Jupyter and Google Colab notebooks • GitHub, pytest, CI pipelines
Benefits
• Build open source software used by developers worldwide. • Work at the intersection of AI, data, and cloud storage. • Collaborate with experienced engineering, product, and QA teams. • Competitive compensation and benefits. • Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance. • At this point, we hope you are excited about the opportunity. Even if you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Learning, development, and growth are important parts of our culture. We are eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in different ways. We want employees to feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work and doing their best work here. • At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to those values. We are committed to fostering a workplace where employees experience a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socioeconomic status, ability, veteran status, or education. We believe a diverse workforce helps us better serve customers around the world and reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing.
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