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Technical Storyteller

Blacksmith· Operations
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$150k - $180kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and running Blacksmith’s content engine to turn engineering launches and customer stories into high-quality technical content, with a strong emphasis on narrative for product launches, documentation explainers, demos, and broader media formats.

Responsibilities

  • Build and run the content engine. You will own cadence and ensure a regular stream of high-quality technical content.
  • Design how we launch. Work with Product to build the playbook for announcements, docs explainers, and demos.
  • Turn customers into stories by interviewing engineering teams and writing compelling content that resonates with other engineers.
  • Set the bar for technical content in this category (deep dives, benchmarks, teardowns, comparisons, etc.).
  • Extend storytelling beyond the blog into video, YouTube, docs, changelog, conference talks, and social/company accounts.

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years writing for a technical audience (developer media, technical content marketing, DevRel, or engineering-adjacent journalism).
  • Published work that traveled (front-page Hacker News, quoted threads, widely shared posts, audience built).
  • Ability to read design docs or PRs and derive a thesis for content pieces.
  • Ability to write with a point of view and engage with online developer communities.
  • Self-motivated and able to work autonomously without a manager or fixed calendar.

Skills

Required:Technical storytellingInterviewing engineers to pull out stories

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
  • Competitive base + equity.
  • 401k match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Annual offsite.
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Blacksmith

The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions

Blacksmith helps companies run their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as fast, at half the cost. We do this by running their CI on high performance gaming CPUs. - Engineering productivity is often marred by slow CI that grows quadratically with the size of the engineering organization. - On top of this, companies pay high markups to run CI on the hyperscalers. - Consequently, companies have to run their CI on spot instances to keep costs in check. Since spot instances can get pre-empted at any point, running CI reliably on them requires [significant engineering investment](https://www.rippling.com/blog/how-rippling-used-spot-instances-to-save-and-scale-ci-cd). Blacksmith offers CI compute that is more performant, cheaper, and reliable. With Blacksmith, companies do not have to think about CI as they scale. We are starting with GitHub Actions - today's most popular and fastest-growing CI system. With a one-line change, companies can run their CI up to twice as fast on our high-performance hardware. In addition to this, Blacksmith provides colocated warm caches along with optimizations for common CI workloads (like building and pushing Docker images). Aayush, JP and Aditya have gained deep systems and product knowledge from their time at Cockroach Labs and Faire respectively. Both these companies, with several hundred engineers, were spending in the order of millions of dollars on their CI. Yet they were riddled with slow CI and actively seeking out cheaper and faster alternatives. Blacksmith offers exactly this alternative, at a time where being lean is table-stakes for most companies.

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