Head of Capacity

The role

You will own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure. You will work with founders and the infrastructure team to forecast demand, manage supplier relationships, and ensure the company can scale.

What you will do

• Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure.
• Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth.
• Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements.
• Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners.
• Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers.
• Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts.
• Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities.
• Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently.
• Build processes and systems that allow Blacksmith to scale.

Required qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or datacenter environments.
• Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations.
• Ability to balance long-term planning with day-to-day operational realities.
• Highly analytical and comfortable making decisions under uncertainty.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Enjoy solving operational problems at scale.
• Want to work closely with founders on company-critical infrastructure decisions.
• Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in SF/NYC.

Nice to have

• Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, hosting company, CDN, or infrastructure startup.
• Experience procuring servers, networking equipment, storage, or datacenter capacity.
• Experience managing infrastructure supply chains.
• Experience with power planning, datacenter operations, or colocation providers.
• Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of hypergrowth.

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 over 10,000 companies.