DevOps Engineer

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Operating and maintaining of backend blockchain infrastructure of the Subspace Network on top of bare metal services, VMs and Kubernetes clusters.
• Following principles of infrastructure as code to make operations well defined and maintainable.
• Ensuring reliable operation through monitoring and observability.
• Educating and enabling the rest of engineering team with automation of CI/CD and other development workflows.
• Sustaining good site reliability practices with incident response and postmortem analysis

Key Requirements:

• Rich experience working with Linux servers, networking, virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Experience setting up and operating production Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines and Linux bare metal servers.
• Familiarity with cloud-native landscape of tooling and experience of successfully deploying them to production environments (Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics+Grafana, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Solid understanding of blockchains and successful experience of maintaining of blockchain node (bootstrap, RPC, validator) infrastructure.
• Be proactive, willing to help engineers so stay productive in fully-remote setting.
• Knowledge of at least one programming language.
• A passion for decentralized, peer-to-peer systems and Web3 technologies.

Bonus Experience:

• Familiarity with the Rust and TypeScript languages and their tooling.
• Familiarity with Substrate and the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Active participation in Open Source development of DevOps/SRE-related tooling, presenting at conferences and meetups.

What We Offer:

• A globally distributed work environment with a high degree of autonomy and agency.
• You will play a critical role in implementing a new layer one blockchain.
• Salary and options befitting an early hire at a venture-backed startup.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.