Founding Engineer

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 each month over hundreds of bare-metal machines.

• We power CI for 100+ fast-growing startups like Slope, AtoB, Pylon, Superblocks, and Pallet.

• Founders: Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs and were experts on replication and disaster recovery. 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 from a Tier 1 VC firm.

• We're growing extremely fast and 60x in revenue since April with just a team of 4.

You are a good fit if you

• Have strong CS fundamentals and systems programming experience in Go.

• Have 2+ years of software development experience.

• Enjoy working in person in SF/NYC.

• Have a do whatever it takes attitude, whether improving the boot times of our VMs, contributing to our orchestrating layer in Laravel PHP, or preventing re-renders in our react app.

• Enjoy working at a very stage startup and are comfortable with ambiguity.

• Have deep empathy for customer problems.

Bonus

• Enjoy writing technical blog content.

• Want to start a company in the future.

• Have worked at an early-stage startup in the past.

Compensation and benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.

• Competitive base + equity.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Quarterly offsite.