Sr. Developer Productivity Engineer
Backblaze External Website
| Company | Backblaze External Website |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Remote - Argentina; Remote - Colombia ; Remote - Costa Rica ; Remote - Mexico |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer to join a small, high-impact team responsible for the tooling, CI/CD infrastructure, and development environments that power Backblaze engineering. You will own and improve the systems that hundreds of engineers rely on every day: local virtualized development environments, build and release pipelines, integration test automation frameworks, artifact management, GitHub repository configuration, and on-call reliability.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You will write scripts, maintain infrastructure-as-code, debug flaky test pipelines, and design tools that save developer time at scale. You will also respond to on-call incidents, triaging and resolving failures in CI/CD systems and developer machine tooling. The ideal candidate sees friction in the developer experience as a problem worth solving, and takes pride in making engineering teams faster and more effective.
What You'll Be Doing:
Own and improve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, including build scripts, artifact publishing, release automation, and supporting infrastructure provisioning.
Maintain and evolve a virtualized local development environment, including VM configuration, containerized service orchestration, and developer setup tooling.
Manage a private artifact repository: promotion strategies, access control, dependency mirroring, and retention policies.
Develop and maintain automation scripts to support release pipelines, CI jobs, and infrastructure provisioning.
Enforce developer toolchain hygiene: GitHub repository configuration, branch protections, and code review policies.
Handle on-call responsibilities for developer tooling, resolving CI failures, environment issues, and infrastructure incidents.
Collaborate with Engineering, QA, and Operation teams to identify developer pain points and prioritize tooling improvements.
Write and maintain documentation and runbooks for the broader engineering organization.
Tools & Technologies:
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Dev Environment: Vagrant, Docker, Docker Compose, Ansible
Operating Systems: macOS (administration, security, system configuration), Linux
Languages: Python, Bash; familiarity with Java/Kotlin a plus
Version control: Git, GitHub (including branch protection and pull request workflows)
Artifact management: Artifactory or similar private repository manager
Monitoring and alerting: Slack integrations, Jenkins notifications, on-call tooling
Project management: Jira, Confluence
AI coding tools: Claude Code and similar agentic coding assistants
Build tooling: Gradle, multi-module builds, dependency management, build optimization
The Right Fit:
5+ years of experience in developer productivity, platform engineering, DevOps, or build engineering, ideally at a mid-to-large engineering organization.
Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Bash; comfortable owning automation in production CI pipelines.
Hands-on experience with Jenkins or similar CI systems: debugging builds, managing credentials, and maintainin
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