Systems Engineer

Blacksmith; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure startup in the United States is seeking a skilled software developer to enhance and manage their CI cloud infrastructure. With 5+ years of experience, candidates will contribute to distributed systems and performance optimization. The role requires in-person collaboration five days a week in NYC. Join a rapidly growing company that is transforming cloud CI solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.
• Experience with build automation and configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale distributed systems.
• Optimize performance and reliability across the filesystem, network, and storage stack.
• Self-host and manage infrastructure.

Skills

Performance optimization

Distributed systems engineering

Infrastructure management

Configuration management tools

Software development

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Ceph

MinIO

Job description

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 $13.5M Series A from Gogole Ventures
• We hit $3M ARR with less than 4 months, 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.