Manager, Software Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers focused on Backblaze cloud services, which includes both customer-facing features and essential infrastructure.

• Take ownership of the software development lifecycle for your team: planning, design, implementation, and post-launch support, collaborating with QA and release teams for testing and delivery.

• Engage in feature development and infrastructure enhancements that broaden Backblaze cloud service capabilities for developers, enterprises, and AI workloads.

• Ensure the reliability and maintainability of cloud service components through ongoing support, bug resolution, and management of technical debt.

• Actively participate in code reviews, architectural decisions, and technical problem-solving alongside your team.

• Collaborate with Product Management to shape roadmap priorities and long-term strategy, offering engineering insights and data to influence decision-making, and translating agreed priorities into well-defined plans with clear milestones.

• Work closely with QA and release engineering teams to ensure smooth transitions, clear acceptance criteria, and high-quality delivery.

• Advocate for the effective use of AI-assisted development tools; actively mentor team members in adopting agentic coding practices and help establish team norms around AI-augmented workflows.

• Continuously enhance team productivity: identify bottlenecks, refine processes, and invest in tools, practices, and team habits that empower engineers to perform at their best.

• Conduct regular one-on-ones, deliver performance reviews, support career development, and lead hiring efforts to expand and strengthen the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading software development teams, preferably in a cloud infrastructure, SaaS, or platform engineering setting.

• Proven experience managing distributed, remote engineering teams across different time zones, including effective asynchronous communication, remote collaboration practices, and keeping remote team members engaged and aligned.

• Strong foundation in software engineering with expertise in system architecture; capable of engaging hands-on in technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural decisions.

• Comprehensive understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through testing, deployment, and production support.

• History of delivering features and platform improvements on schedule with high quality, balancing speed with engineering rigor.

• Experience collaborating closely with Product Management to refine roadmaps and translate priorities into actionable engineering plans.

• Effective communicator: able to clearly represent your team’s work to leadership and stakeholders, conduct engineering reviews, and escalate risks and trade-offs with appropriate context and recommended solutions.

• Familiarity with AI agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) is a plus; we actively utilize these tools and value leaders who embrace and promote their use.

• Experience with cloud storage platforms, distributed systems, or developer-facing APIs is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.

• Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance.