Systems Engineer

About the Company

Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads faster and cheaper by operating a global fleet of bare-metal machines. They orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly and manage a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale distributed systems
• Debug performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack
• Manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration management tools
• Build from first principles in an early-stage startup environment

Requirements

• 2+ years of software development experience in performance-critical or distributed environments
• Proficiency in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig
• Experience with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Ability to work in person 5 days a week in NYC

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with side hustles or startup projects
• Ability to create and iterate on new processes quickly

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)