Staff Systems Engineer
Blacksmith7 months ago
Base Salary
$280k - $340k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms.
- Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
- Own production outcomes including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier.
- Define solutions for ambiguous, complex systems problems.
- Lead technical direction as a hands-on individual contributor.
Requirements
- Deep familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Firecracker, QEMU, or Cloud Hypervisor, including their tradeoffs.
- Experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph and low-level filesystem performance, I/O tuning, and storage reliability at scale.
- Experience working at the kernel and filesystem level with eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, or similar Linux primitives.
- A track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction as an individual contributor.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex systems concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Competitive base salary and equity.
- 401K match.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Annual offsite.
- Early-exercise stock options.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave in the US.
About Blacksmith
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