Site Reliability Engineer - Core

Blockchain, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London office in-person four days a wk

Work from Anywhere up to 20 days/yr

ClassPass

Unlimited vacation

Equity options

Job summary

Blockchain is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Core team to scale a distributed financial platform that touches millions of people daily. You will help develop tooling and educate developer teams to deliver new features securely and at scale.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, and observability, with an in-office London presence four days a week and a Work-from-Anywhere policy allowing up to 20 remote days per year.

Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security.
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language. Go, Python, and Bash are a plus.
• Linux fundamentals including resource allocation, networking, and internals.
• Experience with cloud solutions (GCP or AWS).
• Deep understanding of modern monitoring tools (Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Telegraf).
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Terraform deployments.
• Saltstack experience is a plus.
• GitOps and CI to make changes (Github Actions preferred).
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka).
• Experience with database management.

Responsibilities

• Evolve infrastructure to address reliability, latency, bandwidth, and security challenges.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting across the platform.
• Coordinate work across teams to optimize execution paths.
• Centralize duplicated streams of work for developers where possible.
• Develop tooling to remove manual, repetitive tasks at scale.
• Operate in a fast-paced, high-caliber team environment.

Skills

Containerization & orchestration

Programming (Go, Python, Bash)

Linux systems

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

Observability/Monitoring (Prometheus, 

CI/CD & GitOps

Networking basics

Security best practices

Tools

Nomad

Consul

Vault

Terraform

SaltStack

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Databases

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 teamsso 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

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• This is a role based in our London office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.
• Work from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.
• ClassPass
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field

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