Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer
Backblaze External Website, Remote - US
About the job
About Backblaze
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customersuccess 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.
Role Overview
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer designs, implements, and operates identity and access capabilities for human users, non-human identities, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. The role focuses on the subject side of access control—identity, authentication, roles, groups, entitlements, and privileges—with an emphasis on least privilege, separation of duties, strong authentication, automated lifecycle management, and short-lived credentials.