Backend Reliability Engineer

Interop Labs; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is looking for a Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems to enhance their blockchain automation services. You will work on improving fault tolerance and reliability in a supportive, remote environment that encourages collaboration and continuous learning, alongside competitive compensation and unlimited time off.

Benefits

Unlimited time off

Competitive compensation with stock options

Opportunity to work in a diverse team

Chance to contribute to high impact work

Qualifications

• Strong experience with distributed systems at scale.
• Deep knowledge of fault tolerance and recovery in distributed systems.
• Experience building and orchestrating microservices.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and solve reliability and functional problems.
• Build reliable backend components for blockchain indexing.
• Investigate cross-chain workflows and improve system functionalities.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Fault Tolerance

Microservices

Kubernetes

AWS

Tools

GoLang

Terraform

RabbitMQ

Job description

About the role

We are seeking a Backend Engineer with expertise in distributed systems to expand fault-tolerance and reliability characteristics of our blockchain automation, relaying, and indexing services. In this role, you will be responsible for proactively identifying reliability and functional problems in day-to-day operation of our stack, design and implement long-term solutions, as well as short-term mitigations. You will be looking after backend applications that facilitate cross-chain protocol workflows, such as asset transfer and generalized message passing, while ensuring that our systems are fault-tolerant and highly available.

Your responsibilities

• Reliability: Broadening and deepening observability as necessary to proactively identify functional and reliability issues, coming up with long-term solutions while also mitigating short-term impact.

• Diagnostics: Doing detective work investigating cross-chain and single-chain workflows, understanding complex behaviours and inventing optimal tweaks or improvements.

• Network Liveness: Our team builds and operates the execution layer of the Axelar Network - we are responsible for ensuring every transaction on the network is delivered quickly and reliably.

• System Implementation: Build highly reliable and scalable backend components for blockchain indexing and cross-chain protocols. Develop microservices that operate across diverse execution environments, including Kubernetes and AWS Lambdas.

• Distributed Systems: Leverage your expertise in distributed systems to ensure fault tolerance, graceful failure handling, and transparent recovery across our services.

Your profile

• Strong experience working with distributed systems at scale.

• Deep knowledge of fault tolerance in distributed systems and building software that fails gracefully and recovers transparently.

• Experience working with distributed messaging frameworks (RabbitMQ, AMPQ, or similar) and message driven applications.

• Experience building and orchestrating microservices running in different execution environments like Kubernetes and AWS lambdas.

• We use GoLang, Terraform, AWS in our day-to-day work. You may not be an expert with all of these technologies, but we are looking for somebody with strong skills with some of them or with transferable experience.

Why us?

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

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

• The chance to challenge yourself whilst 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.