Backblaze External Website - Developer Advocate

• Technical Content & Education • Create technical content that teaches developers how to build with Backblaze B2: tutorials, sample applications, reference architectures, blog posts, and short-form video • Build and publish working code examples and demos — especially for AI/ML workflows (training data pipelines, model artifact storage, inference infrastructure), media workflows, and application storage • Contribute to and improve developer documentation, SDKs, and quickstart guides • Translate what you’re hearing from developers into actionable product feedback for Engineering and Product • Be genuinely present in the developer communities where our users live — social media, Discord, Slack, GitHub, and elsewhere • Represent Backblaze at developer events: speak, demo, show up, and be worth talking to. We attend conferences across AI/ML, media, cloud infrastructure, and startup ecosystems • Build relationships in the AI/ML, media, and cloud infrastructure developer communities that generate inbound awareness for Backblaze • Support Flamethrower startup cohort members in getting to production faster — answer technical questions, sanity-check architectures, and document patterns worth sharing broadly • Program Contribution • Work closely with the Director of Startup & Developer Relations, as well as our product team, lifecycle marketing, and product marketing to identify common technical blockers and create content that removes them • Partner with Marketing on ecosystem storytelling, technical blog strategy, and developer-facing content • Maintain a consistent feedback loop from developers to Product — surface friction points, integration gaps, and unmet needs • The Right Fit: • 4–7 years of hands-on experience as a software developer or engineer, with meaningful time working with cloud infrastructure and object storage (S3, B2, GCS, or equivalent) • Direct experience building or integrating AI/ML workflows that involve storage — training data pipelines, model artifact management, inference infrastructure, or similar workloads • You write working code. You may use AI tools to accelerate it — but you understand what you’re shipping and can explain it to another developer • An established presence in developer communities — a social following, conference talks, a technical blog, open source contributions, or some combination. We’re not counting followers; we’re looking for signal that you show up and people pay attention • Strong written communication: you can write a clear technical tutorial and a crisp internal summary with equal ease • Self-directed — you don’t need a content calendar handed to you to know what to build next • Bonus Poins For: • Bonus Poins For: • Familiarity with Backblaze B2 or direct experience with object storage in production environments • Experience with media/video workflows, SaaS backend architecture, or data-intensive platform development • Prior experience in a formal DevRel capacity — developer advocate, technical evangelist, developer educator — even if it wasn’t your primary title • Active in the AI/ML developer ecosystem: Hugging Face, Discord communities, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, or similar channels