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About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. While there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is even more opportunity ahead of us. As we are continuing to grow, we’re seeking a Software Engineer III - B2 Object Storage to join our team! What You'll Do: You will work on B2 APIs and subsystems that allow our customers and integrations to upload objects, manage object lifecycles, track usage, and interact with our billing and storage systems. You will help build new features, improve the scalability of our systems, and build internal observability tooling. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain B2 and S3-compatible APIs to ensure correctness, performance, and backward compatibility for a large base of external customers and integrations. Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to clear design documents Instrument services, develop metrics, define meaningful SLIs/SLOs, and drive reliability improvements. Actively participate in on-call rotation to help determine incident root causes and identify follow-up remediation items The Right Fit: 4+ years of server-side Java programming experience Experience writing software for distributed systems, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout Communicates proactively in a remote environment by keeping the team informed, surfacing blockers early, and moving work forward Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code) Bonus points for: Cassandra and Vitess experience Agile and scrum experience At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture, so even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice. #LATAM
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.