Blacksmith
Operations
HeadofCapacity
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“Head of Capacity at Blacksmith. Skills: Capacity planning, Demand forecasting, Supplier management. Own capacity planning. Build forecasting models”
What You'll Achieve.
Clear data-driven capacity planning process; Infrastructure growth forecasted quarters ahead; Hardware procurement predictable; Deployment timelines predictable; Vendor relationships scalable; Datacenter relationships scalable; Visibility into future capacity constraints; Scale infrastructure without constraint
Industry & Context.
Operational problems at scale; Making decisions under uncertainty
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience operating large-scale infrastructure, Experience with capacity planning, Balance long-term planning, Highly analytical, Vendor management skills, Negotiation skills, Work with technical stakeholders, Work with business stakeholders, Solve operational problems at scale, Work closely with founders
Nice to Have
Experience at hyperscaler, Experience at cloud provider, Experience at hosting company, Experience at CDN, Experience at infrastructure startup, Procuring servers experience, Procuring networking equipment experience, Procuring storage experience, Procuring datacenter capacity experience, Managing infrastructure supply chains, Power planning experience, Datacenter operations experience, Colocation providers experience, Scaling infrastructure through hypergrowth
What You'll Do.
Own capacity planning
Build forecasting models
Partner with engineering
Develop deployment plans
Manage relationships with vendors
Manage relationships with datacenter providers
Manage relationships with infrastructure suppliers
Lead hardware procurement
Lead infrastructure expansion efforts
Evaluate new suppliers
Evaluate new hardware platforms
Evaluate deployment opportunities
Ensure infrastructure investments deployed efficiently
Build processes for scaling
Build systems for scaling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work directly with founders; Partner with engineering; Work with technical stakeholders; Work with business stakeholders
Full Job Description
About Blacksmith - 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 it. About the Role Blacksmith's infrastructure footprint is growing rapidly. Every quarter, we make decisions around servers, storage, networking, datacenter capacity, power, and geographic expansion. As demand for software validation grows, ensuring that capacity is available when and where we need it becomes increasingly important. We're looking for someone to own this problem. You'll work directly with the founders and infrastructure team to forecast demand, plan capacity growth, manage supplier relationships, and ensure Blacksmith can scale ahead of customer demand. Your job is simple to describe but difficult to execute: Make sure Blacksmith never runs out of capacity. What You'll Do - Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter in
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