About the job
About Blacksmith
At Blacksmith, we revolutionize CI workload infrastructure, ensuring speed and cost-effectiveness. Our flagship product accelerates GitHub Actions by leveraging a proprietary global network of bare-metal machines, steering clear of generic cloud VMs.
Currently, we manage tens of millions of Firecracker VMs monthly, serving over 1,200 clients and achieving around $10M in annual recurring revenue within just two years.
Our operations involve thousands of bare-metal machines spread across various regions, scheduling over 30,000 vCPUs concurrently and maintaining a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster.
With $13.5M raised in Seed and Series A funding from Google Ventures (GV), we are committed to building a small yet exceptional team.
Our founders bring extensive experience from building search and ad infrastructures at Faire and managing large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our go-to-market strategy is led by Jon Boyer, former Head of Sales at Zapier.
We are now expanding our CI infrastructure into a comprehensive platform, including the operation of agent sandboxes and the development of our own coding agent.
Your Role
Collaborate with Sales for Technical Success
Conduct technical discovery, scoping discussions, and qualification calls with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams.
Present impactful product demonstrations, whiteboard sessions, and customized technical explorations.
Design and implement Proof of Concepts (POCs), benchmarking CI performance, optimizing pipeline architecture, and validating ROI models.
Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor
Establish credibility with architects, engineering managers, SREs, and CTOs.
Translate engineering challenges into effective solution designs utilizing Blacksmith’s CI cloud.
Guide clients on best practices for CI modernization, ephemeral compute, cost efficiency, and transitioning away from hyperscalers.
Tackle Technical Challenges Instantly
Assist clients in troubleshooting CI performance bottlenecks and ensuring seamless operations.

