Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering (Europe)

P2P; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company specializing in decentralized protocols is seeking a Production Engineer to ensure the seamless operation of its infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in production engineering, automation, and proficiency in various programming languages. This remote role offers an opportunity to work on impactful projects in the web3 space amidst a rapidly growing team and industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years with production engineering.
• Experience with open-source frameworks like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Fluency in Rust, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Maintain production infrastructure and support deployment processes.
• Automate release and monitoring procedures.
• Collaborate with distributed systems experts.

Skills

Production engineering

Automation

Containerization

Orchestration

Infrastructure as code

Metrics

Logging

Tracing

Deployment

Reliability

Systems programming

Fluency in Python

Fluency in Go

Fluency in C++

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

Mysten Labs believes that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value. This is why at Mysten Labs, we are creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

Production Engineers keep Mysten's production infrastructure running smoothly even in the face of heavy traffic or attacks from adversaries. They have expertise in release, deployment, logging, and monitoring processes. They are obsessed with automation. They work closely with distributed systems experts to ensure that the software is configured and deployed correctly.

Our Ideal Candidate Would Have:

• 5+ years of experience with hands-on production engineering, including, infrastructure as code, containerization and orchestration, observability (metrics, logging, tracing, visualization), deployment, and reliability

• Experience working with open-source frameworks for these tasks such as Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform

• Experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS

• Experience building infrastructure and tooling to automate key aspects of the release and monitoring processes

• Experience writing/maintaining clear and detailed runbooks

• Excitement about applying production engineering best practices in a decentralized setting and tackling the challenges and opportunities that emerge

• Fluency in a systems programming language such as Rust (used extensively at Mysten), Go, or C++

• Fluency in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Shell Scripting)

Preferred:

• Experience with blockchain and crypto

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Mysten Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3!