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Software Engineer, Open Source AI

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Software Engineer, Open Source AI in Remote

  • Backblaze External Website
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Costa Rica

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain open source AI integrations, frameworks, and example applications using Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and other open source languages.
  • Build and maintain public sample applications, SDK extensions, notebooks, and reference implementations for AI and cloud storage workflows.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Antigravity, and Codex while validating correctness, security, and performance.
  • Contribute to open source projects through code contributions, issue triage, reviews, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Maintain clean GitHub repositories and ensure open source assets meet standards for testing, documentation, reproducibility, and developer usability.
  • Collaborate with Product and QA to align integrations with customer AI workflows and Backblaze B2 usage patterns.

Requirements

  • Experience contributing to open source projects in one or more widely used open source programming languages.
  • Experience owning and maintaining public repositories with external users and contributors.
  • Practical understanding of AI workflows, including data ingestion, preprocessing, inference, data orchestration, and agent-based systems.
  • Experience writing production-quality code with strong testing and documentation practices.
  • Strong written communication skills focused on developer experience and adoption.

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Opportunity to build open source software used by developers worldwide and work at the intersection of AI, data, and cloud storage.

Salary: Competitive

Backblaze External Website

AI infrastructure runs on data. Storage gets hard at scale. We’ve been breaking, rebuilding, and improving that storage layer for 20 years. We started by building storage servers from scratch in a Palo Alto apartment to save 90% on hardware. Turns out hard constraints make for pretty good enginee...

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