# Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Blacksmith](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/blacksmith)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** C, C++, Go, Rust, Zig, Ceph, Minio, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
**Posted:** 2025-04-30

> Builds and scales distributed systems infrastructure for high-performance CI workloads, focusing on performance/reliability in filesystem, network, and storage. Requires 2+ years experience with C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig and onsite work in NYC.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and scale distributed systems, digging into performance and reliability issues across filesystem, network, and storage stack.
- Write and debug in low-level languages with focus on efficiency, correctness, and safety.
- Self-host and manage infrastructure using build automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Work hands-on with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO.

## Requirements
- Comfortable writing and debugging in **C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig**.
- Familiarity with distributed storage systems like **Ceph** or **MinIO**, or eager to learn.
- **2+ years** of software development experience, ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments.
- Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with side hustles or startup projects.
- Comfortable creating and iterating on new processes quickly.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive base + equity.
- Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
- 401K match.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Annual offsite.
- Early-exercise stock options.
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US).

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