
Solutions Engineer
Blacksmith9 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
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Blacksmith
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