Blacksmith

Solutions Engineer

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9 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery, qualification calls, scoping sessions, product demos, whiteboard sessions, and technical deep dives with customer engineering and platform teams.
  • Design and execute proof-of-concepts involving CI benchmarking, pipeline optimization, and ROI validation.
  • Advise customers on CI modernization, ephemeral compute, cost optimization, and migration from hyperscalers.
  • Debug CI performance bottlenecks, runner reliability issues, and pipeline misconfigurations.
  • Help customers optimize GitHub Actions at scale and adopt ephemeral runners.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Product to capture feedback, validate requirements, shape roadmap decisions, and improve usability.
  • Participate in strategic account planning, identify technical expansion opportunities, and support handoff from evaluation to onboarding.

Requirements

  • Experience in solutions engineering, field engineering, pre-sales, DevOps, or consulting.
  • Hands-on understanding of modern CI tooling, preferably GitHub Actions, pipelines, and DevOps workflows.
  • Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure, containerization, or ephemeral compute systems.
  • Ability to read logs, diagnose failures, understand code snippets, and reason about CI performance bottlenecks.
  • Ability to present technical concepts to engineers, architects, and CTOs and connect technical value to business impact.
  • Experience with DevOps tooling, infrastructure automation, ephemeral compute, CI benchmarking, cloud cost analysis, enterprise evaluations, or security and architecture reviews is beneficial.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, or observability tools is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave in the U.S.
  • Annual offsite

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Blacksmith

11-50 employees

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