General Application
TLDR
Scale CI infrastructure on a global bare-metal platform and build agent sandboxes with a background coding agent.
About Blacksmith
We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each month, running CI for 3,000+ companies and hit ~$10M in ARR in less than 2 years. We’ve more than tripled revenue since the start of 2026.
We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
We’ve raised $13.5M across Seed and Series A, led by Google Ventures (GV), and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
We’re now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.
Compensation and 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)
Benefits
Equity Compensation
401K match.
Health Insurance
Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
Annual offsite event
Annual offsite.
Paid Parental Leave
12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
Paid Time Off
Unlimited PTO.
Stock Options
Early-exercise stock options
Blacksmith builds CI infrastructure that accelerates GitHub Actions by leveraging a global fleet of bare-metal machines. Our technology orchestrates millions of Firecracker VMs for thousands of companies, providing a faster and more cost-effective solution for running CI workloads.