Sr. Developer Relations Manager

• Meaningful DevRel, developer marketing, or developer experience leadership at a cloud infrastructure, open source, or AI tooling company. You've built or significantly grown a developer program, not just contributed to one.
• Understand how agentic workflows are reshaping how developers discover and integrate infrastructure tools — and you have opinions about what that means for DevRel strategy.
• Technically credible. You can read a codebase, evaluate an SDK, write a working integration, and have a real conversation with an engineer about tradeoffs. You don't need to be a full-time SWE, but you need to have been one, or close to it.
• Worked, or started, without a large team. You know how to amplify yourself through cross-functional relationships, external partners, and community rather than headcount.
• Strong communicator — to developers externally and to leadership internally. You can write a crisp technical tutorial and a clear exec summary with equal ease.
• Existing presence in developer communities. A following, conference talks, open source contributions, a technical blog — some signal that developers pay attention when you show up.

Strong plus:

• Direct experience with model training, data processing or generative media
• Familiarity with how coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) surface and recommend infrastructure tools
• Experience working with or building on top of open source frameworks in the AI/ML ecosystem (MLflow, DVC, Ray Data, WebDataset, and MosaicML Streaming)
• Prior experience running or contributing to a startup/developer program (accelerator, cohort model, or similar)

What You'll Have to Work With

You won't be starting from scratch. You'll work closely with:

• A mature, capable docs team that can be directed toward agent-consumable documentation formats and structured reference content
• A strong engineering team dedicated to integrating Backblaze into the AI tooling ecosystem — building connectors, working on external integrations, and driving internal product improvements for developer use cases
• Flamethrower, our startup program, which is already generating community energy and early-adopter signal among AI builders
• An outward-facing solutions engineering team that can extend your enablement work with hands-on technical support
• A content org that can help produce and amplify developer-facing assets
• Active strategic work from Rawkode Academy laying the DevRel foundation: audit, persona validation, content models, and engagement strategy

Why This Matters Now

Developers are making storage decisions earlier in the stack than ever before — often before they've spoken to a salesperson, often through a coding agent recommending a reference architecture. Backblaze has the right product, the right price point, and a growing engineering investment behind this motion. What we need is the person who can translate that into developer conviction at scale.

The window to establish Backblaze as the default AI storage layer is open now. This role exists to make sure we don't miss it.