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.