Infrastructure Engineer

Blacksmith; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to enhance cloud infrastructure for CI workloads. This role involves developing and optimizing distributed systems, ensuring top-notch performance and reliability. You will work closely with a talented team to manage infrastructure using advanced build automation and configuration management tools. If you thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and enjoy tackling complex challenges, this opportunity offers a chance to significantly impact the future of CI solutions. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and innovation in the tech landscape.

Benefits

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance

Competitive Base Salary + Equity

Unlimited PTO

Quarterly Offsite Events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development and distributed systems.
• Experience with performance optimization across various stacks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale distributed systems for cloud infrastructure.
• Optimize performance and reliability across filesystems and networks.

Skills

Distributed Systems Development

Performance Optimization

Infrastructure Management

Build Automation

Configuration Management

Software Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Ceph

MinIO

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Base pay range

$160,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr

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.
  
  

Compensation Range: $160K - $220K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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