Coin Nodes Engineer

Yeah! Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology firm in Greater London seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer. You will manage and upgrade critical blockchain node infrastructure, focusing on solutions to enhance efficiency and security. Required skills include running Bitcoin and Ethereum nodes, automation proficiency in Python or Golang, and strong knowledge in monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus. Join this innovative company to tackle complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum nodes is essential.
• Familiarity with consensus mechanics is required.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language for automation.
• Experience with various monitoring tools is important.
• Knowledge of configuration management and GitOps is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain existing node infrastructure.
• Upgrade nodes and deploy new solutions.
• Create monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Automate disaster recovery processes.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines for robustness.

Skills

Running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum nodes

Understanding of blockchain consensus mechanics

Ability to adopt new technologies

Monitoring tools experience

Containerization and service orchestration

Strong automation skills (Python/Golang)

Linux expertise

Configuration management tools

GitOps and CI experience

Infrastructure as code tools

Database management

Tools

Grafana

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Hashicorp Nomad

Hashicorp Consul

Hashicorp Vault

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

• You will be responsible for operating the existing node infrastructure
• You will be responsible for upgrading existing nodes and researching/building/deploying new nodes and validators
• You will create solutions for monitoring and alerting to maximize systems uptime
• You will be creating automation to help with disaster recovery
• You will leverage existing internal SRE best practices to make coin node provisioning and maintenance more efficient and minimize fragmentation with the rest of the ecosystem
• You will be close to our CI/CD pipelines and will be responsible for upgrading and making them more robust/autonomous
• You will 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 focus heavily on writing tooling to replace manual, repetitive work in a scalable way.

Candidate Requirements

• Deep understanding and demonstrable experience running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum (geth, parity, openethereum) nodes. Experience with other networks is a plus (Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana).
• Understanding of blockchain consensus mechanics (PoW/PoS, slashing, jailing)
• Ability to adopt new technologies
• Experience with monitoring: Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, or similar.
• Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security. Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault is a plus.
• Strong at automation in at least one programming language, preferably Python/Golang.
• Linux, including an understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals.
• Solid background with configuration management tools.
• Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes, github actions is a plus
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex terraform deployments is a plus.
• Experience with database management.
• Experience working in Data Centers is a plus.