Looking for an Excellent Java Engineer

Want to work at a company that helps customers in over 150 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear? A company that stores over 100 petabytes (a quarter as much as Facebook) of customers’ photos, music, documents and work files in a purpose-built cloud storage system?

Well, here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking for another fantastic Java Engineer.

You will work on the server side APIs that authenticate users when they log in, accept the backups, manage the data, and prepare restored data for customers. You will work with artists and designers to create new HTML web pages that customers use every day. And you will help build new features as well as support tools to help chase down and diagnose customer issues.

Must be proficient in:

  • Java
  • JSP/HTML
  • XML
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Struts
  • UTF-8, Java Properties, and Localized HTML (Backblaze runs in 11 languages)
  • Large scale systems supporting thousands of servers and millions of customers
  • And some ‘C’ and Javascript is helpful
  • Cross platform (Linux/Macintosh/Windows)—don’t need to be an expert on all three, but cannot be afraid of any

Looking for an attitude of:

  • Passionate about building friendly, easy to use Interfaces and APIs.
  • No platform bigotry—Linux good, Windows good, Macintosh good!
  • Has to believe NoSQL is an okay philosophy to build enormously scalable systems.
  • Likes to work closely with other engineers, support, and sales to help customers.
  • Believes the whole world needs backup, not just English speakers in the USA.
  • Customer Focused (!!)—always focus on the customer’s point of view and how to solve their problem!

If this sounds like you—contact us on our jobs form.

About Gleb Budman

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies.