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About the Role
This role involves owning the core finance function, including forecasting, planning, and reporting, while also partnering directly with founders on critical strategic decisions regarding capital allocation, infrastructure investment, growth balancing, financing strategy, pricing, margins, unit economics, and fundraising.
Responsibilities
- Own financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and board reporting.
- Build models to support company planning and strategic decision-making.
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to forecast infrastructure investment and capacity requirements.
- Own cash forecasting, treasury management, capital planning, and financing strategy.
- Analyze pricing, margins, and business performance.
- Support fundraising, investor relations, and strategic projects.
- Build the systems and processes that will scale with the company.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a high-growth technology company.
- Exceptional financial modeling skills.
- Ability to solve ambiguous, first-principles problems.
- Effective communication with engineers and executives.
- Strong business judgment and a bias toward action.
- Desire to work closely with founders and shape company strategy.
- Understanding of how high-growth companies finance expansion and strategic thinking about capital structure.
- Experience in an infrastructure, cloud, or developer tools company (Bonus).
- Experience with consumption-based businesses (Bonus).
- Experience with fundraising, capital planning, debt facilities, equipment financing, or infrastructure-intensive businesses (Bonus).
- Experience building a finance function from the ground up (Bonus).
Skills
- Financial modeling
- Forecasting
- Planning
- Reporting
- Treasury management
- Capital planning
- Financing strategy
- Pricing analysis
- Margin analysis
- Business performance analysis
- Fundraising support
- Investor relations
- Strategic projects
- Systems and process building
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite (5 days a week)
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base + equity
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401K match
- Unlimited PTO
- Annual offsite
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
About the Company
- Blacksmith started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads rapidly, with their first product accelerating GitHub Actions using a global fleet of bare-metal machines.
- They currently orchestrate millions of Firecracker VMs monthly, serving over 3,000 companies and achieving approximately $10M in ARR within two years, with revenue tripling since early 2026.
- The company operates thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, concurrently schedules over 100k vCPUs, and manages a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster.
- Blacksmith has secured $13.5M in Seed and Series A funding, led by Google Ventures (GV), and is focused on building an exceptional team.
- The founding team possesses deep systems and scaling expertise from companies like Faire and Cockroach Labs, with GTM led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
- They are expanding their CI infrastructure into a broader platform for agent sandboxes and developing their own background coding agent.