Remote Lead DevOps Engineer - Eclipse

Blockchain Works; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blockchain Works is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to help build a fast and scalable Ethereum Layer 2 solution. The role involves leading team management, developing secure cloud infrastructure, and ensuring service reliability. You'll work closely with experienced professionals from top-tier companies in the blockchain industry, contributing to the future of crypto.

Benefits

Remote flexibility

Competitive salary + equity + benefits package

Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration

Quarterly in-person meetups

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a DevOps engineer in a startup environment.
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure is highly preferred.
• Experience with security engineering or knowledge of best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of DevOps Engineers.
• Manage DevOps prioritization and infrastructure design.
• Establish security practices.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Lead Team Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Monitoring / Alerting

Security Engineering

Fluency in Chinese

Tools

AWS

GCP

k8s

Terraform

Prometheus

Job description

What is Eclipse?

Eclipse is building the fastest Ethereum Layer 2, powered by the Solana VM. Our general-purpose L2 combines the best of the modular stack without sacrificing UX or fragmenting liquidity. Here are our website and docs for more information.

Our team is comprised of former Citadel, dYdX, and Uniswap veterans. We’re backed by top investors including Polychain, Tribe Capital, and DBA.

Who you are

As a full-time Lead DevOps Engineer, you like to be highly organized and have a great sense of prioritization. You’re not afraid to take the lead and you can manage workstreams for other DevOps team members. You’ll work closely with our Head of Engineering and awesome Engineering team members to build a secure, stable, observable infrastructure.

What you have

• 3+ years as a DevOps engineer in startup environment
• Experience with AWS, GCP, k8s, terraform, prometheus
• Experience with security engineering or knowledge of best practices
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure is highly preferred
• Fluency in Chinese is highly preferred.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead small team of DevOps Engineers
• Manage DevOps prioritization and infrastructure design
• Monitoring / alerting
• CI/CD
• On-call during USA work hours (EOD handoff to Asia team)
• Establish security practices
• Devices
• Cloud infrastructure
• Cloud services
• Global access control
• Secure onboarding / offboarding.

Why work with us

• Opportunity. We believe blockchains should be fast AND highly usable. You’ll do high-impact work to enhance Ethereum’s scalability, shaping the future of crypto
• Flexibility. We are remotely distributed with a beautiful office space in SF. We collaborate synchronously and asynchronously, across weekly all-hands meetings, Slack messaging, and quarterly in-person meetups
• Team. Our founding team has experience launching and scaling blue-chip projects such as dYdX, Uniswap, and Findora. We’re backed by leading funds and leaders including Polychain, Tribe, DBA, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Tarun Chitra, Meltem Demirors, and others
• Culture. As an early member of our team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help shape our culture. We value intellectual honesty, bias towards action, and believe every member plays a key role in achieving our ambitious goals
• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary + equity + benefits package.