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# Senior Systems Engineer

- **Company:** BLACKSMITH CORP
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $300,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Build Automation, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Ansible, Software Engineering, Ceph (Software), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Puppet
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_dc3b0fd02decc8286f68fcbd13bbe605

## About the Role

* 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.
 * Have 5+ years of software development experience, ideally in performance-critical or distributed environments.
 * Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC with a small, tight-knit team.
 * Thrive in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup and are energized by building from first principles.