Senior Systems Engineer

Blacksmith, New York City

What you need

Have developed and scaled distributed systems and enjoy digging into performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack.
Are comfortable writing and debugging in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig, and care deeply about efficiency, correctness, and safety at the systems level.
Are excited by the idea of self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
Have familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO, or are eager to get hands-on with them.

Blacksmith, New York City

$200K–$300K

a year

This base pay is above the median for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in New York.

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Have developed and scaled distributed systems and enjoy digging into performance and reliability issues across the filesystem, network, and storage stack.
Are comfortable writing and debugging in C, C++, Go, Rust, or Zig, and care deeply about efficiency, correctness, and safety at the systems level.
Are excited by the idea of self-hosting and managing infrastructure with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
Have familiarity with distributed storage systems like Ceph or MinIO, or are eager to get hands-on with them.