Senior DevOps Engineer, Nillion
Secure processing layer for Web3
Job no longer available
Secure processing layer for Web3
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable continuous growth and transformative technology adoption.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer with experience in Containerisation (Docker, AWS & Kubernetes) preferably with a focus on Distributed Systems and Decentralised Computing
- 5+ years experience with DevOps tooling and automated infrastructure management within Terraform, Cloud Storage and Infrastructure As Code
- Experience building high-functioning production grade code to support a wide range of users for our upcoming milestones
- Experience Designing and implementing robust system and cloud architectures, ensuring scalability, resilience, and optimal performance. Deploy and maintain both web 2.0 and web 3.0 infrastructure in a cloud environment via Infrastructure as Code
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless deployment and integration of applications, as well as strategic DevOps initiatives that align with the product goals
- Participate in deployment of services with strict availability requirements on a large-scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand
Desirable
- Strong experience with communicating with developers and senior technical leadership to tailor the solutions effectively
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and technologies, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, and Cloud Computing
- Have an experience and passion for Blockchain Technology, Web3.0 or Confidential Computing
- Experience with high-level programming languages such as Python, Rust, Golang & node.js
- Experience with building large scale systems and communicating priorities with a degree of open transparency and understanding
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Nillion, you will work on internally focused cloud infrastructure and externally focused deployment kits for node operators
- This role at Nillion will play a critical role in bringing to life a new security, storage and computation model for sensitive data across a decentralized publicly accessible network
- Expertise across all areas of computer science will thus be needed
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Blockchain security hasn’t kept pace with the speed of blockchain development, leading to billions of dollars worth of hacks and exploits. Part of the issue is that data isn’t fully decentralised: computations are currently run on a single node, and verified by others, creating privacy vulnerabilities. Nillion has developed a complex solution that builds on an existing strategy: multi-party computation (MPC).
MPC is a cryptographic protocol in which parties can jointly compute outputs without being privy to other parties’ data. This achieves the greater levels of distribution which are expected to help fend off data hacks and breaches - but it’s not foolproof, especially against expert hackers willing to invest extensive time and resources.
Nillion’s solution, what it’s calling Nil Message Compute, adds an extra layer of complication: data is stored across different nodes as unrecognisable, information-theoretic security particles, so it can be computed rapidly but without the need for inter-node messaging. It’s a level of security that’s been described as “crypto analytically unbreakable”, and its implications for the decentralised blockchain space could be huge. It puts Nillion firmly at the sector’s cutting edge, and its VC funding awarded in 2022 and 2024 indicates that investors believe so too.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2024
$25m
EARLY VC
Dec 2022
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours to accommodate lifestyles and a globally distributed team
- Token Compensation; acquire Nll tokens as part of your bonus
- Make a big impact as a early contributor to an incredible founding team
- Work on new problems in an incredible emerging and dynamic field
- Learn from systems engineering, cryptography, and finance domain experts in a mentorship-oriented work culture
- You don’t need to be in an office or at a desk to have an impact anymore! We are fully remote, but value regular meet-ups
Leadership
Miguel de Vega
(Co-Founder & CSO)Completed a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering at ULB, and spent time as a Siemens IT Consultant before moving into a Project Manager role at Open Canarias. Subsequently co-founded, and led, Browseye, iFlikeU, and Dialective; then served as VP of Data Science at Treexor, and CTO at Sedicii.
Alex Page
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Flag First Capital, Weekday Warriors, and Sport Food Nutrition.
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