Coin Nodes Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for operating the existing node infrastructure
• You will be responsible for upgrading existing nodes and researching/building/deploying new nodes and validators
• You will create solutions for monitoring and alerting to maximize systems uptime
• You will be creating automation to help with disaster recovery
• You will leverage existing internal SRE best practices to make coin node provisioning and maintenance more efficient and minimize fragmentation with the rest of the ecosystem
• You will be close to our CI/CD pipelines and will be responsible for upgrading and making them more robust/autonomous
• You will 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.

Candidate Requirements:

• 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 monitoring: Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, or similar.
• 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, github actions is a plus
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex terraform deployments is a plus.
• Experience with database management.
• Experience working in Data Centers is a plus.
• Experience with Cloud, preferably GCP