Developer Advocate

Role Description

This is a ground-floor developer relations role at a company that is serious about building a DevRel function — not just checking a box. You’ll be the technical voice of Backblaze: creating content, showing up at events, and helping developers understand how to build with Backblaze B2 in the workloads they’re actually running — AI pipelines, media workflows, and data-intensive infrastructure.

You’ll work directly with our Director of Startup & Developer Relations and alongside the Flamethrower Startup Program — Backblaze’s initiative to become the storage layer of choice for early-stage companies. Your job is to be technically credible, well-connected, and visible.

The right person for this role has been doing this work informally — writing technical content, showing up at conferences, building a following in developer communities — and is ready to make it the job. Or they’ve been doing it formally at the mid-level and want to step up on impact without stepping into program leadership yet.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.
• Community & Events
  • 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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 Points 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.

Benefits

• Healthcare for family, including dental and vision.
• Competitive compensation and 401K.
• RSU grants for full-time employees.
• ESPP program.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Maternity & paternity leave.
• MacBook Pro to use for work, plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation.
• Childcare bonus (human children only).
• Fertility treatment and support.
• Learning & development program.
• Commuter benefits.
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance.