DevOps/SRE Engineer

Remote from: USA
Category: DevOps & SysAdmin
Job type: Full Time,
Opening date: 6 Feb 2023
Closing date: 7 Apr 2023
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Real-time core blockchain infrastructure.

Computer Software
2017

Blocknative enables users to take control of blockchain transactions with its reliable Web3 infrastructure. This infrastructure democratizes access to the mempool data and enables users to see into the future. Blocknative’s pre-chain transaction orchestration platform powers advanced trading strategies, improved web3 user experiences, and the construction of profitable blocks on Ethereum.

Founded in 2018, Blocknative is trusted by many forward-thinking projects including Curve, Lido, Ledger, MetaMask, Compound, Synthetix, Gitcoin, Polygon, and the Ethereum Foundation. We are a fully remote company, made up of 50 humans across 7 time-zones and 9 countries. Blocknative is backed by leading investors – including Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group, Rho, IOSG Ventures, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, HackVC, Industry Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and others.

Overview

You’ll join our highly skilled team and help us launch reliable products and services. We’re looking for your skills to help us improve our in-house systems. You’ll work closely with our SRE Lead and CTO as we apply the latest and greatest technologies to our stack.

Responsibilities

Manage multi-region cloud infrastructure for overall service reliability, scalability, and cost
Scale the foundation of our operations team and its practices
Develop, manage, and enhance deployment infrastructure to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and reliable
Build and improve tools and automation to efficiently utilize infrastructure
Respond to incidents and support the engineering team with its product incident response strategy [on call]
Lead postmortems and root cause analysis to help us continuously improve

Preferred* Experience

Developer mindset. Code first approach to infrastructure
2 years configuration management (Ansible preferred)
2 years Linux management
Willingness to be on-call
1 year Terraform or other IAC framework
1 year experience with real-time services
Infrastructure monitoring, such as collecting, processing and analysis of metrics from tools such as Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Datadog
Experience supporting some or the majority of the following language(s)/service(s):
In-memory data stores (Redis, Memcached, etc)
RDBMS (MySQL or Postgres, MariaDB, etc)
AWS cloud services and tooling
Node.js
Golang
Python

* We prioritize people above all else. If you think you’d add to the depth and diversity of our team but don’t fit these qualifications exactly, we want you to apply!

Fun Facts

We’re a bunch of data nerds 🤓
Our CTO started his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab building real-time data streaming software
Blocknative’s infrastructure records thousands of mempool events every second
We’re backed by leading VCs
We’ve published several reports that have been well received in the space:

Hiring Process

Given our early stage, we strive to have you meet as much of the team as possible before extending an offer. Here’s what you can expect:
Application
Schedule a call with the CTO
Schedule a call with the CEO
Schedule a group interview with the Engineering team
Schedule a group interview with the Product team
Schedule a group interview with the Go To Market team
Reference calls
📝 Offer