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
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We orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over our own fleet of bare metal hardware.
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We power CI for 600+ fast-growing startups like Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, Superblocks, and Finch.
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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.
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We went through Y Combinator’s W24 batch and raised our seed round from a Tier 1 VC firm.
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We hit $1M ARR with less than 9 months in the market, and have continued our rapid growth from there.
You are a good fit if you
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Have developed and scaled distributed systems and enjoy optimizing performance and reliability across the filesystem, network, and storage stack.
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Are excited by the idea of self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef.).
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Have familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.
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Have 5+ years of software development experience.
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Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC.
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Enjoy working at a very early-stage startup and are comfortable with ambiguity.
Bonus
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You’ve dabbled in your own side hustles or start-up projects.
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You’re comfortable creating new processes and iterating on them quickly.
Compensation and benefits
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Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
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Competitive base + equity.
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Unlimited PTO.
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Quarterly offsite.
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Early-exercise stock options
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12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
