{"id":20371,"date":"2015-01-06T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=20371"},"modified":"2021-05-05T04:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:27:31","slug":"we-need-a-java-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/we-need-a-java-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Java Engineer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed.jpg 720w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; font-size: 24px; line-height: 40px; text-align: center; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Thank you for your interest, but this position has been filled.<br \/>\nPlease check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jobs page<\/a> for additional great opportunities at Backblaze.<\/div>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Want to work at a company that helps customers in over 150 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear? A company that <a href=\"\/blog\/100-petabytes-of-cloud-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stores over 100 petabytes<\/a> (one fourth as much as Facebook) of customers\u2019 photos, music, documents, and work files in a purpose-built <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-storage-pod-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloud storage system<\/a>? A company that has <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-fast-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grown over 917%<\/a> the last five years?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here\u2019s your chance. Backblaze is looking for another fantastic Java engineer.<\/p>\n<p>You will work on the server side APIs that authenticate users when they log in, accept the backups, manage the data, and prepare restored data for customers. You will work with artists and designers to create new HTML webpages that customers use every day. And you will help build new features as well as support tools to help chase down and diagnose customer issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Must be proficient in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>JSP\/HTML<\/li>\n<li>XML<\/li>\n<li>Apache Tomcat<\/li>\n<li>Struts<\/li>\n<li>UTF-8, Java Properties, and Localized HTML (Backblaze runs in 11 languages)<\/li>\n<li>Large scale systems supporting thousands of servers and millions of customers<\/li>\n<li>And some \u2018C\u2019 and Javascript is helpful<\/li>\n<li>Cross platform (Linux\/Macintosh\/Windows)\u2014don\u2019t need to be an expert on all three, but cannot be afraid of any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Looking for an attitude of:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passionate about building friendly, easy to use Interfaces and APIs.<\/li>\n<li>No platform bigotry\u2014Linux good, Windows good, Macintosh good!<\/li>\n<li>Has to believe NoSQL is an OK philosophy to build enormously scalable systems.<\/li>\n<li>Likes to work closely with other engineers, support, and sales to help customers.<\/li>\n<li>Believes the whole world needs backup, not just English speakers in the USA.<\/li>\n<li>Customer focused (!!)\u2014always focused on the customer\u2019s point of view and how to solve their problem!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This position is located in San Mateo, California. Regular attendance in the office is expected. Backblaze is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we offer competitive salary and benefits, including our <a title=\"Unlimited Vacation Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/unlimited-vacation-time-the-backblaze-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no policy vacation policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/company\/jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact us on our jobs page.<\/a> We\u2019ll be accepting resumes through January 20, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your interest, but this position has been filled. Please check out our jobs page for additional great opportunities at Backblaze. Want to work at a company that helps customers in over 150 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear? A company that stores over 100 petabytes (one fourth as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/we-need-a-java-engineer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Need a Java Engineer!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-jobs","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We Need a Java Engineer!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Backblaze needs a Java Engineer! 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