Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud (AMER Timezones)

Individuals in this role would be responsible for a variety of activities including: improving upon the current cloud infrastructure, creating immutable infrastructure as needed, building out auto-scaling capabilities, constantly evolving the architecture for cost effectiveness, enabling a zero-downtime RPC infrastructure, building out metrics dashboards and alarms, actively engaged during oncall rotations, driving root cause analysis and solving them, and fearlessly document all infrastructure runbooks to keep them up to date.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and/or Vultr, operating on cloud consoles
• 5+ years of command-line scripting on Ubuntu and/or CentOS Linux
• Solid understanding of dashboard metrics, error detections & log aggregations
• Solid understanding of operating systems capabilities, startup scripts, network tuning, etc.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure DNS, load balancers, firewalls, reverse proxies, mounted drives, network packets, etc.
• Solid understanding of cloud storage capabilities
• Solid understanding of immutable infrastructure management using Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Solid understanding on JSON RPC and REST API behaviors
• Good understanding of security policies, identity/role management, etc
• Basic understanding of database management

Additional Requirements

• Highly effective working in a remote and virtual environment
• Good verbal and written communication in English
• Able and willing to attend daily standups & document weekly reports
• Highly adaptive working with ambiguity and continually evolving priorities
• Demonstrates strong value for diversity and ability to work in a team effectively
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for conferences and team retreats

Preferred Experiences

• 2+ year experience with managing cloud-based infrastructure using command-line interfaces
• 1+ year experience with immutable cloud infrastructure to deploy containers, perform load balancing and service worker management
• 1+ year experience with managing multiple cloud providers

Benefits at Harmony

• Full or Partial Remote Work
• Competitive Compensation + equity
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Periodic team retreats
• MacBook Pro, phone and other communications included
• 401K matching

Harmony Foundation supports the missions of equal opportunities. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of the Foundation.

About

Our open infrastructure is a revolutionary high-throughput, low-latency, and low-fee consensus platform designed to power decentralized economies of the future. This platform aims to provide a consensus protocol over the open Internet at 10 million transactions per second with 100-millisecond latency.Harmony’s goal is to be 1,000+ times faster and cheaper than Bitcoin and Ethereum. We believe scalability requires optimization across multiple layers. Our full-stack approach applies 10x innovations in networking, systems, and consensus algorithms.