Blacksmith
Solutions Engineer
New York City · Exec · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 215 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsProcurementCommunication
About the role
- EXCEPTIONAL COMMUNICATION & STORYTELLING SKILLS - Ability to present confidently to engineering ICs, architects, and CTOs. - Skilled at simplifying complex concepts and tying technical value to business impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery, scoping sessions, and qualification calls with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams.
- Deliver high-impact product demos, whiteboard sessions, and tailored technical deep dives.
- Design and execute POCs, including benchmarking CI performance, optimizing pipeline architecture, and validating ROI models.
- Build credibility with architects, engineering managers, SREs, and CTO-level stakeholders.
- Translate engineering pain into clear solution designs using Blacksmith's CI cloud.
- Help teams optimize GitHub Actions at scale and adopt ephemeral runners effectively.
- Maintain deep technical understanding of Blacksmith's architecture and how it integrates into complex enterprise environments.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product to validate requirements, shape roadmap decisions, and improve usability for large-scale CI teams.
- You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building new processes from scratch.
- Experience supporting enterprise evaluations at scale (security reviews, architecture sessions, procurement support).
Requirements
- Ability to present confidently to engineering ICs, architects, and CTOs. - Skilled at simplifying complex concepts and tying technical value to business impact.
- You can read logs, diagnose failures, and reason about CI performance bottlenecks.
Nice to have
- Hands-on understanding of modern CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions preferred), pipelines, and DevOps workflows.
Skills
- Ability to present confidently to engineering ICs, architects, and CTOs.
- Skilled at simplifying complex concepts and tying technical value to business impact.
- Scrappy, resourceful, fast-moving.
- Comfortable in a high-velocity, evolving technical and GTM environment.
- Experience with DevOps tooling, infrastructure automation, or ephemeral compute systems.
- Understanding of CI benchmarking, cloud cost analysis, or hyperscaler limitations.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, or observability tools.
- Deep curiosity about engineering productivity and developer experience.
Compensation
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Annual offsite.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (U.S.)
Company info
- Guide customers on best practices for CI modernization, ephemeral compute, cost optimization, and migration off hyperscalers.
- Assist customers in debugging CI performance bottlenecks, runner reliability issues, or pipeline misconfigurations.
- Identify technical expansion opportunities within existing customers.
- You anticipate needs, remove friction, and help customers realize the full value of Blacksmith.
- Energized by being part of a small, senior, talent-dense team shaping a new product category.
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