Site Reliability Engineer - Core

Blockchain.com; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 134,829,000 - 224,716,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

In-office four days a week

Performance bonuses

Apple equipment

Remote work up to 20 days/year

Job summary

Blockchain.com is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its Palermo Core team to design and scale a distributed financial platform, improve reliability, security and performance, and build tooling to reduce toil.

You will guide developers, enhance observability, coordinate across groups, and help deliver features quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and service orchestration.
• Strong programming knowledge in Go, Python or Bash.
• Cloud experience with GCP or AWS.
• Solid observability and monitoring experience; knowledge of Prometheus, Datadog or Grafana.
• Experience with IaC tooling, especially Terraform.
• Familiarity with Saltstack or similar config management.
• GitOps and CI workflows, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Kafka messaging and database management.
• Data center operations experience is a plus.
• Networking basics including routing and switching.

Responsibilities

• Play a critical role in evolving infrastructure to improve reliability and security.
• Improve observability, monitoring and alerting across the platform.
• Coordinate work across teams to optimize delivery paths.
• Centralize common workflows to reduce duplication among developer teams.
• Focus on building tooling to replace manual repetitive tasks at scale.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment alongside a high-caliber team.

Skills

Containerization & orchestration

Programming languages (Golang, Python,

Linux system knowledge

Cloud solutions (GCP/AWS)

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Datadog,

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Configuration management (Saltstack)

GitOps / CI (Github Actions)

Messaging systems (Kafka)

Database management

Data Center experience

Networking basics (routing/switching)

Tools

HashiCorp Nomad

HashiCorp Consul

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Blockchain is connecting the world to the future of finance. As the most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company, it helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions.

We are looking for aSite Reliability Engineer to join our Core team to encourage infrastructure best practices across our organization that would allow to securely scale a distributed financial platform that touches millions of people a day.

Our distributed financial platform tackles some of the most interesting problems in the crypto for millions of our customers and continues to grow rapidly. The SRE team at blockchain combines software and systems engineering to provide a platform that abstracts complexity for increased security, reliability and rapid product delivery.

The SRE organization at Blockchain is a work in progress - our focus is always on how to make our existing systems better. We pride ourselves on having created an environment where individuals have a high degree of freedom in proposing, discussing, designing and implementing changes. We are a team that places a high value on abstract thinking to deliver exceptionally effective tooling. We abhor toil.

As a member of the Core team you will be tasked with developing an in-depth understanding of the infrastructure needs of our products. You will establish and maintain creative engineering solutions to improve our customers’ experience by building necessary tooling. Crucially, you will alsoguide and educate developer teams so that they can deliver new features in a rapid, secure and scalable manner.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• 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 be an integral part of improving observability, monitoring and alerting throughout the platform.
• You will help co-ordinate work across different areas of the company to ensure the most efficient path of execution
• You will centralize wherever possible common streams of work that are currently duplicated across developer teams.
• 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.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security. Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language. Experience with Golang, Python, and Bash is a plus.
• Linux, including an understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals.
• Experience working with cloud solutions (GCP or AWS).
• Deep understanding and demonstrable experience with modern monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Telegraf
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex Terraform deployments is a plus.
• Solid background with configuration management tools. Experience with Saltstack is a plus.
• Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes, preferably Github Actions.
• 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.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Competitive full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• This is a role based in our Palermo office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an exciting, emerging industry.
• Performance-based bonuses
• Apple equipment provided by the company
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.