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 $136M ARR 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.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join our team!

About the Role:

This role combines foundational curiosity with growing technical expertise to resolve complex customer issues involving Backblaze products and 3rd party integrations. The Technical Support Engineer demonstrates initiative, analytical detail, and a commitment to professional communication while taking action on technical issues ranging from individuals and small businesses up to Enterprise customers.

What you'll do:

• Handle and resolve customer issues, driving issues to resolution, and acting as an ambassador of Backblaze and its products.
• Communicate directly with customers via video/phone call for information gathering and troubleshooting needs, utilizing call control and de-escalation skills.
• Manage escalations received from the account administration team and other groups.
• Provide Silent Install Troubleshooting for the Backblaze Backup Client and Silent Installer/Enterprise Deployment Support.
• Troubleshoot a variety of integrations.
• Act as a technical resource to the CSM and other sales teams.
• Conduct detailed investigation of reported "Bugs" to provide Quality Assurance (QA) a detailed report, including QA Data Collection (Error logs, Behavior patterns, OS specifics, Application version).
• Review support tickets for potential trends/issues, focusing on integrations, and providing trend reporting to Leadership/Management.
• Expand and contribute to documentation, including Log and error Confluence KB expansion, and communicating updates to the Technical Writing team for public-facing KB Articles.
• Provide Integration Training to the team via "Get Familiar With" meetings.
• Track issues using task management systems like JIRA.
• Monitor Backblaze infrastructure outages and alerts (Sev-1 through Sev-4).
• Utilize advanced technical knowledge of Backblaze Products (Backup/B2/S3) and network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTPS, Telnet/MTR(ICMP)).
• Implement processes to escalate issues and work cross-functionally with other teams (Operations, SRE, TAMS, Engineering, NetEng).

The Right Fit:

• Experience in customer-facing technical support.
• Foundational Understanding and competency with Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems, including text shells (Bash, Terminal, CMD, PowerShell).
• Competence and familiarity with technical concepts involving networking and filesystems.
• Familiarity with task tracking and management systems (ticketing, JIRA, Salesforce).
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and a drive for personal development.
• Experience with API usage and Python familiarity (installation and use).
• Comfortable with AI Agents and Tools to enhance productivity.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience. 

Nice to Have:

• Expertise/Experience with Text Shells (Powershell, Bash, and Terminal).
• Scripting and Automation Experience or Familiarity.
• Backblaze Backup Troubleshooting Expertise, including error codes, Bztransmit Errors, and Installation Errors.
• Networking troubleshooting experience, including knowledge of CORS, TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTPS.
• General knowledge of Internet protocols, Computing, data collection, and analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Opensearch and Grafana).

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.

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

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

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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 $136M ARR 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.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Technical Account Manager to join our team!

About the Role:

What You’ll Do:

• Create historic records that clearly outline how our service is being utilized and pinpointing where possible issues could arise.
• Parse code visually to see what the customer’s code is doing and having the knowledge of the B2 and S3 compatible API’s to discern what is going on in the user code.
• Write scripts that involve the B2/S3 compatible API for testing.
• Test 3rd party integrations and doing deep drives to learn the ins and outs of all of the integrations, while documenting quick configuration, caveats and other useful information to help in training.
• Work closely with members of other teams, including Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations and Product Management.
• Mentor Technical Support Engineers and others, in various technical areas.
• Post Sales support for large customers; take part in Solution Engineer calls and slack/email conversations with large customers as they transition from pre- to post-sales
• Create, Implement and use monitoring tools to proactively address common support issues before widespread impact to the customer base, including creation of monitoring dashboards and alerting
• Interact at a cross-departmental level to bring resolution to customer’s unique needs
• Build rapport and trust with assigned customers in technical matters
• Perform deep-dive technical troubleshooting of customer issues using analytical tools and internal system logs

Other responsibilities may arise over time. 
Working closely with the manager will be needed to solidify policies and procedures for this role.

The Right Fit:

• Comfortable with MacOS, Windows, Linux and BSD command line interfaces.
• Understand and be able to create/edit shell configuration files.
• Intermediate development skills in any type of Development/scripting language.
• Basic understanding of data structures and programming flows.
• Strong Organizational skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Extensive troubleshooting/Debugging experience.
• Being able to understand API’s, use of API’s, and creating scripts that utilize API’s will be necessary for this role
• Working familiarity with Postman or Paw
• Soft skills and knowledge in de-escalation techniques for frustrated or excitable customers
• Punctuality, keeping a schedule and working within a time frame is critical for this role
• Strong communication skills as this role will be in frequent contact with customers via phone, chat and email
• Available for on call support as needed
• Ability to learn new tools and utilize them in an impromptu fashion
• Willingness and ability to use AI, responsibly, to help with the workflow.
• Minimum 2-4 years experience

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.

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

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

#LATAM

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.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Support Administration Specialist!

About the role:

The Account Administration Specialist is a customer-facing role responsible for maintaining customer account health. This involves managing administrative requests, resolving billing and product activation issues, guiding customers on product use and security, and answering basic Backblaze client questions, including installation and uninstallation. Additionally, this role serves as the initial point of contact for triaging and escalating technical matters to the appropriate technical team.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide support to customers through chat and ticketing systems for various account issues, including billing adjustments, cancellations, and refunds.
• Guide customers through the process of product activation and licensing.
• Manage and update customer personal account information.
• Instruct customers on how to use product features within the web interface and client.
• Support customers with setting up security configurations and maintaining general account health.
• Triage technical matters and effectively escalate them to the technical team.

The Right Fit:

• Familiarity with Zendesk or similar customer ticketing systems.
• Proven experience in customer interfacing and support.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for interactions across phone, email, and chat.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems and product information.
• High attention to detail.
• Proficiency in basic troubleshooting steps, including web browser navigation and clearing cookies.
• Understanding of application installation and uninstallation processes.
• Experience working with both Mac and Windows operating systems.
• Minimum 1-2 years experience

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.

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

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.