Lead DevOps Engineer
New York
Recruiting Services /
Full-Time /
Remote
Our clients mission is to commoditize all forms of intelligence. Operating at the intelligence layer of the AI stack, they believe that building at the intersection of crypto and AI is the optimal path to achieving their mission.
As crypto-natives and ML experts with experience across leading Web3 projects, large finance companies, and large tech companies, the team combines deep blockchain knowledge with world-class technical capabilities. Backed by top crypto venture funds and angel investors who share the vision for the future of digital ownership.
We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. Alongside a team of other talented engineers, you will play a leading role in ensuring our APIs, analytics platform, and other apps are always up and running and are operating efficiently.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the p2p nodes and traditional apps are running as smoothly as possible with zero downtime
- Troubleshoot all deviations from “zero downtime” alongside developers, including but not limited to debugging
- Communicate with external community members and partners in troubleshooting their issues and participating in the ecosystem as peer nodes
- Secure our systems from common web2 vulnerabilities (e.g. DDoS)
- Create monitoring and alerting systems to preempt all potential issues
- Participate in on-call duties alongside developers
- Proactively identify the need for and create automations
- Aid in software engineering responsibilities (mostly Golang, some Python and Shell)
Key Requirements:
- 3+ years as DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer in a high-volume production setting
- AWS mastery
- Understanding of how common p2p networks work on a deep technical level
- Prior software engineering experience
- Prior experience with Postgres or similar databases
- Advanced knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools
- Demonstrated ability to work in fast-paced, constantly shifting environment
- Knowledgeable in the Web3 Crypto/DeFi space with a solid grasp of recent global trends and use cases
Preferred Requirements:
- Prior experience building open source developer tooling and interacting with open source communities
- Familiarity with the Cosmos SDK, enhancing your ability to contribute to our protocol development
- Understanding of Solidity, with an interest in smart contract development
