Sr. Software Engineering Manager

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. 
If all that sounds interesting, you might be interested to know that Backblaze is looking for a Sr. Software Engineering Manager!

Want to know what you’ll be doing?

As a Senior Software Manager, you will lead a team of Software Engineers in architecting, developing, testing and deploying high quality software. You will play a key role in product development, starting from collaborating with Product Management on feature definition to deployment. Your technical acumen, project management, communication and collaborative skills will help the team to be product-focused and keep deliverables on track.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of management experience leading a software development team.
• Motivation to take the initiative in a constantly-changing work environment.
• Experience working across functions with organizations such as Operations, Product Management, Sales and Marketing. 
• Ability to partner with Product Management to manage current and upcoming projects, understand and navigate through competing priorities, and provide work estimation. 
• Skills to mitigate project risks including business, technical and schedule risks.
• Strong understanding of SaaS application technologies. 
• Experience developing applications in a Java ecosystem.
• Experience in Software development life cycle - Planning, Development, Integration, Validation, Release.
• Drive to continually improve engineering processes and standards and drive adoption throughout the organization.
• Good interpersonal skills to manage projects through difficult obstacles.
• Leadership to develop, mentor, coach, and grow the team. 
• Passionate about customer experience

Backblaze Employees Have:

• Good attitude and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done.
• Strong desire to work for a small, fast paced company.
• Desire to learn and adapt to rapidly changing technologies and work environment.

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

Backblaze Perks:

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

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts include candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is $165,000 - $210,000. 

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 also further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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