You will be responsible for operating the existing node infrastructure
You will be responsible for upgrading existing nodes and researching/building/deploying new nodes and validators
You will create solutions for monitoring and alerting to maximize systems uptime
You will be creating automation to help with disaster recovery
You will leverage existing internal SRE best practices to make coin node provisioning and maintenance more efficient and minimize fragmentation with the rest of the ecosystem
You will develop new tooling in conjunction with the SRE team to be adopted by the rest of the engineering organization where appropriate
You will be close to our CI/CD pipelines and will be responsible for upgrading and making them more robust/autonomous
You will play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure as we develop solutions to complex technical problems involving reliability, latency, bandwidth and most importantly security.
You will focus heavily on writing tooling to replace manual, repetitive work in a scalable way.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Deep understanding and demonstrable experience running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum (geth, parity, openethereum) nodes. Experience with other networks is a plus (Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana).
Understanding of blockchain consensus mechanics (PoW/PoS, slashing, jailing)
Ability to adopt new technologies
Experience with monitoring: Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, or similar.
Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security. Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault is a plus.
Strong at automation in at least one programming language, preferably Python/Golang.
Linux, including an understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals.
Solid background with configuration management tools.
Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes, github actions is a plus
Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex terraform deployments is a plus.
Experience with database management.
Experience working in Data Centers is a plus.
Experience with Cloud, preferably GCP
COMPENSATION & PERKS
Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
Hybrid model working from home & awesome office location in the heart of London
Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
Apple equipment
The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
