Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ava Labs
$158.4-188.1k
Smart contracts platform for dApps
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Smart contracts platform for dApps
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$158.4-188.1k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance that enables the world to have a more prosperous future.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineer
- Strong grasp of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLOs, and SLIs
- Cloud networking and orchestration with AWS (EKS, ECS, VPC, S3, ELB)
- Strong Kubernetes experience with Docker or RKT containerization
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (preferred), Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
- Experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Experience with Linux-based infrastructures. (Ubuntu preferred)
- Experience with scripting languages and the creation of scripts. (Python and GoLang preferred)
- Working knowledge of decentralized architecture design patterns and distributed systems
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team
- This Engineer will be responsible for release pipelines, environments, observability, and monitoring of critical components of the Avalanche blockchain network
- They will drive efficiency and velocity across the engineering team while maintaining reliability and security
- Develop and optimize highly reliable and scalable infrastructure focused on best practices and SRE principles
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing tools to gain insights into service behavior and health
- Uphold SLOs (Service Level Objectives), SLIs (Service Level Indicators), and error budgets for critical systems
- Enhance the reliability and resiliency of critical systems by identifying single points of failure and implementing best practices
- Deploy and monitor observability tools and dashboards for monitoring and optimization of systems using tools such as Datadog and Grafana
- Develop infrastructure deployment scripts including terraform, terragrunt, and Argo CD for production and test environments
- Improve the development release pipeline automation and quality gates in GitHub Actions
- Work closely with developers to increase developer productivity, velocity, and efficiency of the team
- Identify areas of cost optimization and reduction and execute cost reduction measures
- Automate and streamline incident management processes to minimize service disruption and improve response times
- Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring quick restoration of services and fostering a blameless post-mortem culture
- Foster a continuous improvement mindset by analyzing and learning from incidents and implementing preventive measures
- Leverage cloud technologies and IaC tools to ensure scalability and repeatability
- Advocate for best practices in reliability, security, and maintainability within the team
Our take
The highly secure and decentralized nature of blockchain technology makes it an attractive prospect for financial projects - but historically, this has come with a compromise on transaction speed and scalability, with Ethereum and Blockchain speeds barely breaking into double digits per second.
Ava Labs’ open-source platform Avalanche enables companies to launch decentralized applications with all the benefits of blockchain, whilst processing a record-smashing 4,500 transactions per second. The company's strategy has been to tailor its blockchain to specific applications, establishing a reputation in the sector through efficient hard-and-fast use cases with low fees. This has allowed it to operate alongside blockchain giants like Ethereum that hoard large amounts of the DeFi market.
In answering the strong appetite for a cheaper and more scalable blockchain consensus, Ava Labs has found a keen audience, and secured the ability to pursue its goal of opening the space up to more users. The Avalanche platform has become the first to partner with Amazon Web Services, becoming part of a project to bring blockchain technology to government and enterprises. The company also partnered with digital identity verification provider Blockpass, to collaborate towards furthering the safety, security and capabilities of the ecosystem.
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Insights
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$350m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$230m
LATE VC
Total funding: $586m
Company benefits
- 401k (non-matching)
- Commuter Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Short-term/long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Happy Hour Fridays
- Team Activities
- Remote-friendly Networking
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote Friendly
- Volunteer Time-Off
Company HQ
Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
Leadership
Kevin Sekniqi
(COO & Chief Protocol Architect)Former Researcher and Software Engineer at Microsoft and NASA, with a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
Emin Gun Sirer
(CEO)Founder of Bloxroute Labs and professor at Cornell for 20 years with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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