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About the Role
Blacksmith is extending its CI infrastructure into a broader platform, running agent sandboxes at scale and building its own background coding agent. This role will build and run the content engine, design launch narratives, turn customers into stories, set the bar for technical content, and extend content across various formats.
Responsibilities
- Build and run the content engine to ensure a reliable cadence of technical content.
- Design launch narratives, including announcements, explainers, and demos.
- Identify and write compelling content based on customer success stories and engineering achievements.
- Create high-quality technical content such as deep dives, benchmarks, teardowns, comparisons, and essays.
- Extend content reach through various formats including video, YouTube, docs, changelogs, and conference talks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing for a technical audience (developer media, technical content marketing, DevRel, or engineering-adjacent journalism).
- Published work that has gained significant traction (e.g., front page of Hacker News, quoted threads, widely shared posts).
- Ability to understand and credibly present technical concepts.
- Skill in interviewing engineers and extracting compelling stories from technical documents.
- Ability to write with a strong point of view.
- Deep understanding of online developer communities and trends (Hacker News, X, social chatter).
- Ability to work autonomously and determine content priorities.
Skills
- Technical writing
- Content strategy
- Developer relations
- Technical marketing
- Storytelling
- Audience engagement
- Online community engagement
- Content creation (blog posts, video, docs, etc.)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base + equity
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and 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 efficiently, now helping companies run GitHub Actions faster and cheaper using a global fleet of bare-metal machines.
- Orchestrates tens of millions of Firecracker VMs weekly, serving over 5,000 companies with approximately $50M in ARR.
- Operates thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, managing concurrent scheduling of 100k+ vCPUs and a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster.
- Raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, with investors including Google Ventures (GV) and Peak XV Partners.
- Founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience from companies like Faire and Cockroach Labs.
- GTM leadership includes Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
- Expanding CI infrastructure into a broader platform for agent sandboxes and building a background coding agent.