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Head of Capacity
BlacksmithHead of Capacity
Perks & benefits
Medical InsuranceHealth InsuranceVisaRelocation AllowancePaid Leave
Requirements
Large-scale infrastructure experience, Capacity planning and forecasting, Vendor management, Analytical decision-making, In-person availability in SF/NYC
Skills
infrastructureDatacenter
About the role
About the Company
Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads fast. By operating a global fleet of bare-metal machines, they help companies run GitHub Actions more efficiently. They orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly and are expanding into agent sandboxes and background coding agents.
Responsibilities
- Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure
- Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth
- Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements
- Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners
- Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers
- Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts
- Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities
- Track utilization and ensure efficient infrastructure investment
- Build processes to scale from thousands of servers to many times that number
Requirements
- Experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or datacenter environments
- Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations
- Strong analytical skills and ability to make decisions under uncertainty
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
- Ability to work effectively with technical and business stakeholders
- Ability to work in person 5 days a week in SF or NYC
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, hosting company, CDN, or infrastructure startup
- Experience procuring servers, networking equipment, storage, or datacenter capacity
- Experience managing infrastructure supply chains
- Experience with power planning, datacenter operations, or colocation providers
- Experience scaling infrastructure through hypergrowth
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
- Competitive base + equity
- 401K match
- Unlimited PTO
- Annual offsite
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
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