Senior Systems Engineer

The role

You will develop and scale distributed systems and investigate performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack. You will manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration management tools.

What you will do

• Develop and scale distributed systems
• Dig into performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack
• Self-host and manage infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools

Required qualifications

• Comfortable writing and debugging in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig
• 5+ years of software development experience, ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO, or are eager to get hands-on with them

Nice to have

• Dabbled in your own side hustles or start-up projects
• Comfortable creating new processes and iterating on them quickly

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
• Competitive base + equity
• 401K match
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual offsite
• Early-exercise stock options
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

About the company

Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads fast using a global fleet of bare-metal machines. The company orchestrates tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week for 10,000+ companies.