Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

At Blacksmith, we provide cloud infra to help companies run their CI (GitHub Actions) substantially faster and cheaper. Our mission is to build a CI cloud. Our bet is that CI, as a class of workloads, is ready to be unbundled from the hyperscaler clouds (AWS / GCP / Azure). This is a bold statement, and we have an ambitious roadmap ahead.

Some things we're proud of

We orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over our own fleet of bare metal hardware.

We power CI for 600+ fast-growing startups like Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, Superblocks, and Finch.

Founders : Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs. Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash worked on search infra and was later a founding member of the ads team at Faire.

We went through Y Combinator's W24 batch and raised our seed round from a Tier 1 VC firm.

We hit $1M ARR with less than 9 months in the market, and have continued our rapid growth from there.

You are a good fit if you

Have developed and scaled distributed systems and enjoy optimizing performance and reliability across the filesystem, network, and storage stack.

Are excited by the idea of self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef.).

Have familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.

Have 5+ years of software development experience.

Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC.

Enjoy working at a very early-stage startup and are comfortable with ambiguity.

Bonus

You’ve dabbled in your own side hustles or start-up projects.

You’re comfortable creating new processes and iterating on them quickly.

Compensation and benefits

Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.

Competitive base + equity.

Unlimited PTO.

Quarterly offsite.