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
Yes, you'll own forecasting, planning, reporting, and the core finance function. But you'll also work directly with the founders on some of the company's most important decisions: How do we balance growth, reliability, and capital efficiency?
What they're looking for
- Have 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a high-growth technology company
- Are an exceptional financial modeler
- Enjoy solving ambiguous, first-principles problems
- Can communicate effectively with both engineers and executives
- Have strong business judgment and a bias toward action
- Want to work closely with founders and help shape company strategy
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 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...
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