Senior Systems Engineer
Blacksmithover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale distributed systems for CI infrastructure, agent sandboxes, and coding agents.
- Debug performance and reliability issues across filesystem, network, and storage layers.
- Write and debug efficient, correct, and safe systems-level software.
- Self-host and manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration-management tools.
- Operate and work with distributed storage systems and large-scale bare-metal infrastructure.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development experience.
- Experience developing and scaling distributed systems, ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments.
- Proficiency writing and debugging in one or more of C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig.
- Interest in or experience with self-hosted infrastructure, build automation, and configuration management.
- Familiarity with distributed storage systems such as Ceph or MinIO, or willingness to learn them.
- Ability to work in person five days per week in New York City.
- Bonus: experience with side hustles or startup projects and creating new processes in ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Competitive base salary plus equity.
- 401(k) match.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Annual offsite.
- Early-exercise stock options.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave in the US.
- In-person work five days per week in NYC.
About Blacksmith
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