Blacksmith
Senior Systems Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York City · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 30, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years of software development experience; ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments.
About the job
Build and operate distributed systems and bare-metal infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, storage, and the platform for agent sandboxes and coding agents.
What you'll do
- Develop and scale distributed systems, investigating performance and reliability across filesystem, network, and storage layers.
- Self-host and manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration management tools.
- Work with distributed storage systems such as Ceph or MinIO.
What they ask for
- Comfort writing and debugging in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig.
- Experience developing and scaling distributed systems, with a focus on systems-level efficiency, correctness, and safety.
- Interest in self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools.
- Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Ceph or MinIO, or eagerness to gain hands-on experience.
- Side-hustle or startup project experience; comfort creating and quickly iterating on processes.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Go, Rust, Zig, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
AI focus
The company is extending its CI infrastructure to run agent sandboxes at scale and building a background coding agent; the posting does not specify the role's direct AI duties.
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