Software Engineer - Billing & Manageability

Backblaze, Inc.
San Mateo, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Remote
San Mateo, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
API
Agile Methodologies
Data Warehousing
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Software Design Documents
Distributed Systems
Scrum
Systems Integration
Stripe
Api Design
Data Pipelines

Job description

  • Build and evolve a state-of-the-art billing system, supporting usage-based, subscription, and hybrid billing models across Backblaze's product portfolio
  • Design and implement APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven workflows that connect our billing platform to payments, tax, ERP, CRM, and data warehouse systems
  • Instrument services, develop metrics, and define meaningful SLIs/SLOs to drive reliability improvements across the platform
  • Implement customer-facing product telemetry features for B2 Object Storage, giving customers greater visibility into their usage and costs
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to clear, well-reasoned design documents
  • Write high-quality, well-tested server-side code in a distributed systems environment

Requirements

  • 4+ years of server-side Java programming experience
  • Experience writing software for distributed systems, including design, implementation, testing, and rollout
  • Communicates proactively in a remote environment by keeping the team informed, surfacing blockers early, and moving work forward
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor)

Bonus Points For

  • Experience with third-party billing platforms (Orb, Chargebee, Metronome, Stripe Billing, or similar)
  • Experience with usage-based or metered billing models
  • API design and integration experience
  • Agile and Scrum experience

About the company

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., 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., About Backblaze 201-500

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