Speed up your GitHub actions with Blacksmith. Run CI/CD 2x faster, download caches 4x faster, build Docker images 40x faster, and eliminate queue times. Start free today. Backed by Peak XV, Y Combinator and GV.
About the role
You're maniacal about polish and know what earns trust with a developer audience. Instinct and taste are critical here. Evidence you've built or meaningfully evolved a brand for a technical product, not just executed against someone else's system.
What they're looking for
- You're maniacal about polish and know what earns trust with a developer audience. Instinct and taste are critical here
- 5+ years in brand design role, ideally in developer tools, infrastructure, or at the least in a complex B2B product environment
- A portfolio that shows both systems thinking and range across mediums - web, motion, print, and presentation, with strong typography and layout at its core
- Evidence you've built or meaningfully evolved a brand for a technical product, not just executed against someone else's system
- The ability to articulate why a design decision is right and bring engineers and founders along with it
- Comfort with ambiguity
More about this role
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 week, running CI for 7,000+ companies and tens of millions in ARR. We’ve grown 10x so far in 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 $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, 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.
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