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Staff Product Engineer

Blacksmith· Engineering
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New York City$280k - $380kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff-level engineer role at Blacksmith responsible for setting technical direction for new products, owning architecture, solving complex problems, and driving 0-1 product initiatives to grow and excite customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the architectural direction for our new product(s). These new products don’t exist in the industry today. You will be designing and building the next generation of AI native developer tooling.
  • Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
  • Drive the development of these products from 0-1.
  • Accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier.
  • Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces where both the problem and the solution need to be defined.

Qualifications

  • Expertise in building products that customers love.
  • Track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction while operating as an individual contributor.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Architectural leadershipProduct roadmap and strategy

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
  • Competitive base + equity.
  • 401K match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Annual offsite.
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • Unlimited agent tokens
  • 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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