Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About BloxStaking

BloxStaking is a fast growing startup and the first public, open-source and fully non-custodial staking infrastructure for Ethereum 2.0 based on the ssv.network protocol. It serves as an easy and reliable way to stake and earn rewards, while ensuring participants retain complete control over their private keys with emphasis on security and optimizing performance. Our goal is to simplify staking while ensuring Ethereum stays fair and decentralized. The ssv.network is a breakthrough and disruptive solution in the blockchain industry. We believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation, independence, and responsibility, while always keeping our users at the forefront.

Why join our team?

We are a global team that are looking for people with diverse professional backgrounds to join and contribute their ideas and help in the company's success. You'll get to work in a transparent environment with the most innovative technologies, be constantly challenged and learn from like-minded professionals and leaders in the industry. We offer a platform for you to develop and achieve your career goals. We look forward to hearing from passionate, goal-oriented applicants ready to make their mark in the blockchain space.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a critical role in building tools that focus on the intersection between state-of-the-art cloud technologies and blockchain. The ideal candidate will be at the forefront of enhancing our productivity engineering practices, working closely with our product teams to define frameworks and infrastructure that enables fast product iteration. With a strong emphasis on platform engineering, scalability, and reliability, you'll lead efforts to architect robust infrastructure that will support a great variety of products ranging from APIs to fully fledged internal testing networks.

This role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to shape the future of our operational capabilities as we continue to grow.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement infrastructure and tools that empower our product teams to rapidly and securely iterate, emphasizing reliability and automation.

- Influence the strategic direction of our infrastructure and operational practices, ensuring that we are well-positioned to scale and support our growing organization.

- Take a proactive role in the resolution of production issues, ensuring that we are well-prepared to handle incidents and that we learn from them in a blameless manner.

- Work closely with product teams on crucial initiatives such as production deployments, release management, and incident handling, aiming for seamless operations.

- Offer technical expertise and input to support the continual adoption and modernization of our platform and infrastructure.

- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, encouraging constructive review and adaptation processes.

Your Experience & Qualifications:

- Kubernetes expertise, with a strong understanding of its core concepts and the ability to manage and maintain clusters.

- Expertise within modern cloud native tools, e.g. ArgoCD for automation, Terraform/Crossplane for IaC, Prometheus/Mimir for monitoring.

- 3-5 years of experience in using Infrastructure as Code and tools for cloud provisioning - Must

- 3-5 years of practice in development and scripting in languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, or similar - Must

- Proficient in both written and spoken English, with exceptional communication abilities.

- Expertise when it comes to Linux environments, containerization, and cloud technologies.

- Comprehensive knowledge of production management concepts for distributed systems.

- A history of 3-5 years in operational roles, overseeing production settings.

- Networking knowledge: bonus points for service mesh experience, platform engineering and cross-cloud networking.

- Familiarity with the Ethereum ecosystem, staking, and blockchain technologies - Advantage

*We offer equal opportunities and ensure an inclusive recruitment for our global teams without consideration of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation.