Jobs at Blacksmith

As a Startups Lead at Blacksmith, you will own the company's engagement strategy with early-stage startups, focusing on YC companies and the broader VC-backed ecosystem. Your responsibilities include identifying potential customers, building relationships with founders and engineering leaders, and closing new partnerships to drive growth.

Staff Product Engineer at Blacksmith is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role focused on setting the technical direction for new, industry-first products. The role involves owning architecture, solving complex product challenges, and driving 0-1 product initiatives to shape company growth and customer engagement.

Blacksmith is hiring a Technical Storyteller to build and manage their content engine. This role will be responsible for creating a reliable cadence of high-quality technical content, designing launch narratives for new products and features, and transforming customer successes into compelling stories.

Senior Systems Engineer at Blacksmith. This role involves developing and scaling distributed systems, with a focus on performance and reliability across the filesystem, network, and storage stack. The engineer will write and debug code in languages like C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig, and manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration management tools.

Executive Assistant to the CEO at Blacksmith, a hypergrowth startup. This role involves owning the CEO's calendar, scheduling, and prioritization to enable the CEO to focus on business success. The position requires acting as the CEO's right hand during a critical growth phase.

Technical Support Engineer at Blacksmith. This role involves assisting customers and the pre-sales team with complex technical issues, developing a deep understanding of the Blacksmith product, and identifying trends in customer issues to improve the product. The engineer will also reproduce technical issues, collaborate with engineering, and develop tools for issue diagnosis and service optimization.

Head of Capacity at Blacksmith, an infrastructure company focused on accelerating CI workloads. This executive role involves forecasting demand, planning capacity growth, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the company never runs out of infrastructure capacity.

Account Executive, Digital Natives at Blacksmith is a hunter role focused on new business acquisition within high-growth, engineering-driven companies. The executive will build pipeline, break into accounts, manage technical sales cycles, and close net-new customers, selling a deeply technical product to engineers, platform teams, and leadership.

Solutions Engineer at Blacksmith, partnering with sales to secure technical wins. This role involves leading technical discovery, delivering product demos, and executing Proofs of Concept (POCs) to validate ROI and performance.

GTM & Ops Recruiter at Blacksmith responsible for full-cycle hiring for GTM and Ops roles. This includes building outbound sourcing from scratch, partnering with founders to define talent standards, and managing the hiring process with a focus on quality and speed.

Office Manager at Blacksmith in San Francisco. This role owns the day-to-day operations and workplace experience for the in-person team, ensuring the office is an enjoyable environment with amenities like stocked kitchens and catered lunches. Responsibilities include coordinating internal and external events, and managing employee experience milestones.

Blacksmith is hiring a Brand Designer to own the company's visual and auditory brand across all surfaces, including their website, social media, events, decks, and swag. This role involves translating complex technical concepts into accessible visuals and taking ownership of the brand's evolution.

Staff Systems Engineer at Blacksmith is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role focused on setting the technical direction for core infrastructure. The engineer will own architecture, solve complex systems problems, and drive initiatives related to Blacksmith's growth, performance, and reliability.

Founders Associate at Blacksmith, a hypergrowth company building CI infrastructure. This role supports founders by ensuring their efficiency and effectiveness, taking on significant responsibility in a fast-paced environment. The associate will gain exposure to operating a rapidly scaling business.

Senior Product Engineer at Blacksmith. This role involves building and evolving Codesmith, a background coding agent, and creating tools for debugging CI jobs. The engineer will also work on AI-powered features and product surfaces for analytics and observability.

Blacksmith is seeking an Enterprise Product Manager to own and evolve their product roadmap for enterprise customers. The role requires shipping enterprise capabilities, maturing post-PMF products, and ensuring simplicity while fighting product bloat. The ideal candidate has experience with SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and security reviews.

Blacksmith is hiring a General Manager to build their Sandboxes business. This zero-to-one role involves owning the business end-to-end, including product strategy, customer development, go-to-market, pricing, partnerships, adoption, revenue, unit economics, and team-building.

This is a general application for an engineering role at Blacksmith, a company that builds infrastructure for fast and cost-effective CI workloads using bare-metal machines. They orchestrate millions of Firecracker VMs weekly for thousands of companies and manage a large-scale Ceph cluster.