Blacksmith

Blacksmith

Staff Systems Engineer

New York City · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 113 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitGitHub ActionsLinuxProduct StrategySystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • You will be one of the key technical authorities and a force multiplier at Blacksmith.
  • This is a high impact, hands-on technical leader role.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms.

Requirements

  • Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph) and a strong grasp of low-level file system performance, I/O tuning, and storage reliability at scale.
  • You're a good fit if you have
  • Comfort working at the kernel and filesystems level: experience with eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, or similar Linux primitives.

Compensation

  • Annual offsite.

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
  • Competitive base + equity.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
  • Compensation and benefits

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