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 1000+ fast-growing startups like Supabase, UserTesting, Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, and Finch.
Founders: Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs. Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash worked on search infrastructure and later became a founding member of the ads team at Faire.
We went through Y Combinator's W24 batch and raised $13.5M Series A from Google Ventures
Who You Are
3+ years shipping developer-facing SaaS (CI/CD, infra, observability, or dev-tools).
Former SWE or CS degree: You truly understand the modern SDLC and the pain points of developers. You want to automate away all the tedious parts of getting code merged.
Data-driven: you know how to model TAM, ARR, gross-margin, and can recite them in your sleep.
0→1 comfort: you’ve taken a product from whiteboard to GA, pricing, packaging, and the first million in ARR.
NYC-based, excited to sit next to founders and customers 5 days a week.
Bonus
You’ve dabbled in your own side hustles or start-up projects.
You’re comfortable creating new processes and iterating on them quickly.
Compensation and benefits
Compensation: We want to attract the best people to come work with us and offer competitive compensation packages
Benefits: We offer premium health, dental, and vision coverage and 16 weeks paid parental leave for new parents.
Time off: We offer unlimited PTO and encourage folks to take their birthday off!
Foodie Benefits: You and a +1 get a Michelin star dinner on us for your birthday
401(k): Helps you save for retirement
Top Skills
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