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 our seed round from Google Ventures.
We're growing extremely fast and hit $1m ARR with a team of just 4 in less than 12 months.
You are a good fit if you
Thrive in an in-person environment in NYC, 5 days a week.
Are technical and resourceful. You can pick up new systems quickly, dive into logs, troubleshoot CI issues, and help unblock customers when things go wrong.
Have a high degree of customer empathy. You genuinely want customers to succeed and feel confident working with both junior and senior engineers.
Are comfortable being responding to tickets, answering questions, and digging into infrastructure issues. You should be comfortable helping customers migrate, optimize, and scale their CI workloads.
Enjoy learning and constantly ask: “How can this be better?”
Can communicate clearly and effectively — both verbally and in writing. You’ll often be a technical point of contact for some of our best customers.
Are tenacious and detail-oriented. You follow up, close the loop, and make sure issues are resolved end-to-end.
Are excited to be part of a high-growth startup where priorities can shift quickly and there’s always more to build.
Bonus
Have familiarity with CI/CD workflows and tools.
Have a deep understanding of Docker.
Have experience working directly with customers in technical support, solutions engineering, or developer relations.
Are comfortable creating and iterating on new support or optimization processes.
Compensation and benefits
Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
Competitive base + equity.
Unlimited PTO.
Quarterly offsite.
Early-exercise stock options
12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
