Open Source AI Engineer for AI Workflows - Remote

Backblaze; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain open source AI integrations and example applications that demonstrate how Backblaze B2 supports AI workflows. You will work with latest AI startups and open source frameworks, using AI coding agents daily.

You’ll contribute production-quality code, ensure testing and documentation, and maintain public repositories for external adoption. This role rewards continuous learning and hands-on testing of emerging AI frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open source projects.
• Production-quality code with strong testing and documentation practices.
• Strong written communication for developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Use AI coding agents to build harnesses for apps, SDKs, notebooks, and reference implementations that demonstrate AI and cloud storage best practices.
• Implement and maintain open source integrations, frameworks and example applications using languages commonly used in the open source ecosystem, including Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation while validating correctness, security, and performance.
• Contribute to open source projects through code contributions, issue triage, reviews, and ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure all open source assets meet high standards for testing, documentation, reproducibility, and developer usability.
• Maintain clean, well-structured GitHub repositories intended for external adoption and community contribution.
• Collaborate with Product and QA to ensure integrations reflect real customer AI workflows and Backblaze B2 usage patterns.

Skills

Open source contributions

Python

TypeScript

Go

JavaScript

Tools

Backblaze B2 SDKs

REST APIs

CI pipelines

pytest

Jupyter

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain open source AI integrations and example applications that demonstrate how Backblaze B2 supports AI workflows. You will work with latest AI startups and open source frameworks, using AI coding agents daily.

You’ll contribute production-quality code, ensure testing and documentation, and maintain public repositories for external adoption. This role rewards continuous learning and hands-on testing of emerging AI frameworks.