Integrations Engineer

As an Integrations Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in growing the Axelar Ecosystem by adding connections to new blockchains. You will collaborate with the product and protocol teams to prioritize integrations. You will also become intimately familiar with the Axelar protocol and stack to help facilitate new chain integrations, providing necessary guidance to external teams that utilize the Axelar network to connect new chains.  Your primary responsibility will be to take lead on an integration and progress it through different environments all the way to production. With each integration you will improve the tooling and processes around integrations including internal deployments, testing frameworks, deployment scripts, security, monitoring & alerting as well as libraries to interact with the chain and the deployed smart contracts that support interchain communication. 

• Take ownership of the end-to-end integration process for new blockchains

• Manage the deployments and upgrades of Axelar's smart contracts & core network to support integrations.

• Improve stability and reliability of in-house DApps.

• Build and expand our monitoring capabilities to ensure our stack, as well as that of public validators, runs smoothly.

• Evaluate and help integrate new security focused protocols.

• Strengthen our security posture and refining protocols for offline signing.

• Improve the infrastructure and deployment to improve team's agility and velocity.

• Forge solid relationships within Interop Labs to fully understand the needs in the ecosystem whilst working in an agile environment.

• Collaborate with external teams that integrate with the Axelar network. 

• Experience  interacting with smart contracts.

• Scripting and tooling experience preferably in Javascript/Golang

• Experience managing a blockchain network and coordinating upgrades.

• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes in a cloud environment.

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions.

• Security first coding and deployment mindset.

• Understanding of blockchains / DeFi as a user is a plus.

• Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to lead and share knowledge to reach solutions as well as the keenness to learn.

• You enjoy being hands on, being a self starter that thrives well in ambiguity.

• A problem solver at heart that can envision successful outcomes.

• Autonomous, distributed environment with the opportunity to work collaboratively in a diverse team worldwide.

• The scope to contribute to high-impact work and make a difference in a decentralized protocol.

• The chance to challenge yourself while learning heaps of stuff in the process.

• Unlimited time off throughout the year to rest and recharge.

• Competitive compensation with stock options, experiencing growth from the initial phase.