Site Reliability Engineer

This position is based in Zug, Switzerland or Berlin, Germany, but for exceptional candidates, we may consider remote work in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotation, failure resolution, post-mortem analysis and prevention through automation.
• Maintenance of the 1000 validator program of Polkadot and Kusama
• Assist teams on making the platform components production-ready and provide support on IT-related issues.
• Take ownership of the different infrastructure-as-code components that build up our platform, adapting them to the evolution of the given requirements.
• Define automated tools to help the products be timely adapted to end-user requirements, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Continuously improve the observability of the system and the feedback loops for getting information about potential problems before they happen.
• Design automated disaster-recovery mechanisms.
  

Requirements

• Experience designing and maintaining scalable, resilient, performant and observable systems.
• On-call experience: participation in ops-duty rotations, incident response and post-mortem analysis and prevention.
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Solid background in software development and experience with one or more of the following; Nodejs, Typescript, Rust, Python and Bash Scripting
• Experience or willingness to learn about cloud-native technologies: kubernetes as platform, Helm as package manager, prometheus and related technologies as the monitoring stack, all working on different providers such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, DigitalOcean and Azure.
  
  

A plus

• Continuous Delivery experience.
• Familiarity with Database administration and a good understanding of networking
• Prometheus, alertmanager and grafana: create service monitors, write alert rules, create dashboards and panels.
• Experience using Terraform and Ansible with a test-driven infrastructure approach.
• Interest and background in decentralized technologies, especially blockchain.
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and employee benefits
• Regular company retreats at unique locations located around Europe
• Opportunity to work in a multinational, high-performance team with diverse backgrounds (i.e. physics, computer science, machine-learning algorithm design, legal, financial products, management consulting, marketing & advertising, etc.)

To apply to this position, we ask you to answer a few questions in the application form, and to submit your CV and a cover letter, telling us a bit about yourself and your motivation to join us.

For more information about us, visit us on

• Web3 Foundation website: https://web3.foundation/
• Polkadot website: https://polkadot.network/
• Documentation: https://wiki.polkadot.network