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
A proven track record of hiring at an exceptional talent bar. The hires you’ve made have gone on to be highly successful in their roles Urgency - you have to be comfortable and able to operate with urgency in a truly hypergrowth environment
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across GTM & Ops roles within fast paced startup environments
- A proven track record of hiring at an exceptional talent bar. The hires you’ve made have gone on to be highly successful in their roles
- Urgency - you have to be comfortable and able to operate with urgency in a truly hypergrowth environment
- You’ve worked with teams that have built highly technical products, and understand the nuances to selling a role in this environment to prospective candidates. Ideally this will have been a similar infrastructure or developer-tools product
- Good process instinct - you know how to not overburden hiring with unnecessary processes, whilst still maintaining the correct standard of rigour
- High agency and thrive in 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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