Site Reliability Engineer, Blockchain.com
Coin Nodes
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Cryptocurrency exchange & financial services firm
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange & financial services firm
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Blockchain.com's mission is to build the future of the financial system, and to change it for the better.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding and demonstrable experience running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum (geth, parity, openethereum) nodes. Experience with other networks is a plus (Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana)
- Understanding of blockchain consensus mechanics (PoW/PoS, slashing, jailing)
- Ability to adopt new technologies
- Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security. Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault is a plus
- Strong at automation in at least one programming language, preferably Python/Golang
- Linux, including an understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals
- Solid background with configuration management tools
- Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex terraform deployments is a plus
- Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka
- Experience with database management
- Experience working in Data Centers is a plus
- Knowledge of routing and switching protocols is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team as we tackle some of the most interesting problems in the crypto space, like how do we securely scale a distributed financial platform that touches millions of people a day
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed and fault-tolerant systems
- SRE ensures that Blockchain’s services are reliable and available to meet our users and the business needs, and delivers a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance
- At Blockchain, SRE is also a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to running better production systems—we build our own creative engineering solutions to operations problems. SREs are responsible for the big picture of how our systems are designed for operability, how they relate to each other, and we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems
- Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement are key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work
- The SRE/DevOps environment at Blockchain is a work in progress - we are looking for an experienced, senior SRE to provide engineering leadership across the SRE team and the broader engineering team
- You will be able to play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure as we develop solutions to complex technical problems involving reliability, latency, bandwidth and most importantly security
- You will focus heavily on writing tooling to replace manual, repetitive work in a scalable way
- You will work in a fast paced, and dynamic environment complementing our existing high calibre team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Blockchain.com was founded in 2011 with the aim of making Bitcoin more compelling and efficient for consumers. It's now the world's leading provider of digital currency and distributed ledger software, with over 35 million users and $1 trillion in crypto transactions conducted on the platform.
Cryptocurrencies have become a fundamental part of both financial and cultural life. And yet, their world is often still murky and confusing to the uninitiated. Blockchain.com have been focused on bringing further exposure of digital assets to mainstream audiences. As part of this, the company partnered with the NFL team, Dallas Cowboys, which has bought with it branding, advertising, content and event opportunities.
The company has impressive funding at its back, that was raised in an otherwise turbulent time for venture capital markets. This stands to signify the attractiveness of the company to investors, which certainly bodes well for its future success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2023
$110m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $600m
Company benefits
- Meaningful Equity
- Crypto Bonus
- HealthCare
- Paid Family Leave
- Get the equipment you need
- Unlimited Vacation
- Remote-first
- Offsites
Company values
- Be relentless: A journey into uncharted territory doesn’t come without challenges. Don’t give up. Stay in the fight. Find a way
- Build like an owner: Remember: we’re a startup, first and last. Have a bias for action. Take pride in what you ship. Raise the bar.
- Be a team player: Put teamwork and the mission above your ego. Be willing to lend a hand. Ask for help when you need it.
- Communicate with candor: Realize the best ideas are forged by fire. Challenge ideas respectfully when you disagree. See giving and getting feedback as a gift.
- Embrace an infinite mindset: Know that building the financial system of the future will take decades. Aim for long term impact over short term gains. Set audacious goals. Don’t be afraid to take risks.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Peter Smith
(CEO)Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and Director and Board Member at UK Finance.
Nicolas Cary
(President)Founder Commmissioner of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development. Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board at skysthelimit.org.
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