Senior DevOps Engineer

Paradigm; Paris; À distance; USD 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

An innovative company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the lifecycle of decentralized applications and blockchain networks. In this role, you'll wear many hats, combining DevOps, Site Reliability, and Platform engineering to ensure high availability and performance of services. You'll collaborate with teams to implement best practices and manage Kubernetes clusters while leveraging your expertise in cloud management and observability tools. Join a world-class team dedicated to bringing secure Bitcoin staking to the forefront of the blockchain industry, with ample opportunities for growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in operating secure Cosmos SDK and Bitcoin infrastructure.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes and cloud management, preferably AWS.

Responsabilités

• Own the onboarding process of services to production infrastructure.
• Strive for high uptime and swift incident resolution for live services.
• Operate scalable Kubernetes clusters and in-house platform offerings.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

Linux Management

Terraform

Cloud Management (AWS)

Incident Response

Scripting

Observability Tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Communication Skills (English)

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Outils

Helm Charts

FluxCD

GitHub Actions

Redis

MongoDB

MariaDB

RabbitMQ

Description du poste

Babylon Labs’ mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to the decentralized world via a new public Cosmos-SDK PoS blockchain (Babylon chain) and a suite of inter-chain protocols.

At Babylon, we are at the forefront of web3 innovation by developing elegant and complex blockchain systems. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will spearhead the complete lifecycle of Babylon PoS networks and performant dApps.

About You

You are a Senior DevOps engineer who is highly adaptable and thrives on wearing many hats. You love learning from others, as well as helping them out. You are a team player, direct and open-minded. You strive to deliver, have high work standards and are a responsible individual.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be wearing many hats, doing a fusion of DevOps, Site Reliability and Platform engineering. Your responsibilities include:

• Own the onboarding process of services to production infrastructure, including:

  • Producing Proof of Concepts for the deployment of blockchain networks and dApps

  • Identifying hosting needs and rightsizing infrastructure for high availability

  • Planning and executing performance benchmarking strategies and load-testing to identify bottlenecks

  • Owning CDN caching, DNS and security configuration to achieve low latency

• Strive for high uptime and swift incident resolution for live services:

  • Set up fine-grained monitoring and alerting rules

  • Enforce thoroughly tested disaster recovery procedures

  • Lead incident response procedures by being part of the DevOps on-call rotation scheme

• Operate scalable Kubernetes clusters and several in-house platform offerings, including:

  • Bitcoin nodes (bitcoind), indexers (electrs, ord) and explorers (mempool)

  • Databases (Redis, MongoDB, MariaDB) and queuing systems (RabbitMQ)

  • Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Loki, Promtail, Sentry)

• Collaborate closely with other teams to drive bug identification and resolution, as well as advocate for the adoption of production-ready practices

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• 2+ years of experience in operating secure Cosmos SDK and Bitcoin infrastructure (additional blockchain ecosystems and mainnet experience are a plus)

• 2+ years of experience in operating highly available containerized web application systems on Kubernetes (web-3 native systems are a plus)

• Strong Top-3 cloud management experience (AWS preferred)

• Experience in Kubernetes application packaging (Helm Charts) and deployment (fluxcd, GitHub Actions)

• Proficiency in Linux management and scripting

• Experience in Terraform scripting

• Experience in operating open-source observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)

• Ability to manage competing priorities and respond swiftly to incidents

• Fluent oral and written communication in English

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Babylon Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring secured Bitcoin staking to the world. Supported by top venture funds like Paradigm, Polychain Capital, Bullish, Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, Framework Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, OKX Ventures, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of trustless Bitcoin staking!