Systems Engineer
Blacksmith
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Job Description
Blacksmith is building a CI cloud to help companies run their CI (GitHub Actions) substantially faster and cheaper. Their mission is to unbundle CI from hyperscaler clouds like AWS/GCP/Azure. They orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over their own fleet of bare metal hardware, powering CI for 600+ fast-growing startups. Founders were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs and Faire.
The Systems Engineer role involves developing and scaling distributed systems, digging into performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack. The role requires writing and debugging in languages such as C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig. Responsibilities include self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef), and familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.
The role offers competitive base salary ($160K - $220K), equity, medical, vision, and dental insurance, unlimited PTO, quarterly offsites, early-exercise stock options and 12 weeks fully paid parental leave. This is a great opportunity to join an early-stage startup backed by a Tier 1 VC firm, building from first principles and experiencing rapid growth.
Requirements
- Developed and scaled distributed systems
- Enjoy digging into performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack
- Comfortable writing and debugging in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig
- Care deeply about efficiency, correctness, and safety at the systems level
- Excited by the idea of self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO
- 2+ years of software development experience, ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments
- Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC with a small, tight-knit team
- Thrive in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup
- Energized by building from first principles
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Quarterly Offsite
- Early-exercise Stock Options
- 12 weeks fully paid Parental Leave
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