Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Onchain - Gemini

WorksHub; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in crypto and Web3 is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Onchain infrastructure team. The role involves automating and managing the infrastructure for digital asset access, focusing on cloud-based solutions. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in creating infrastructure as code, with strong programming skills and hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms. Competitive compensation packages are offered, including bonuses and equity grants.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary

Discretionary annual bonus

New hire equity grant

Comprehensive health plans

401K with company matching

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud software and infrastructure as code.
• Experience in software development and encryption protocols.
• Proficiency in a functional or object-oriented language like Go or Java.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy infrastructure for blockchain daemons and wallet.
• Write code for automation and integrity of systems.
• Improve security and reliability of cloud-based infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud Software Implementation

Infrastructure as Code

Troubleshooting and Debugging

Scripting Languages

Tools

AWS

GCP

Ansible

Docker

Job description

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded byTyler WinklevossandCameron Winklevossin 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

The Department: Onchain

The Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Onchain infrastructure team at Gemini creates and manages software tools and platforms, automates the creation and support of this infrastructure, helps integrate complex processes, and supports secure data access. Site Reliability Engineers in the Onchain department are expected to actively collaborate with backend engineers, contributing directly to programming efforts.

Security of customers’ digital assets and personal information held with Gemini is our first and foremost priority. The infrastructure team builds and operates environments for the purpose of digital asset access. There are three main pillars of work including building and running blockchain daemons, building and runningvalidators, and supporting our next generation wallet infrastructure. There are constant challenges in providing up to date data in our nodes to providing highly available specialty nodes to our stakeholders.

In our work, we build and use software to support our cloud-based infrastructure. Given the need to build and integrate more of our software in the cloud, the ideal engineer will have extensive experience in automating and building out cloud-based software (e.g., AWS or GCP), preferably with experience as a software developer that focuses on cloud-based automation approaches. This engineer will also work closely with various teams across the organization.

We are a dynamic group with both entrepreneurial spirit and security engineering experience. We have incredibly high aspirations, and we are looking for like-minded individuals who want to guide the transition to a new more decentralized world where access to digital assets is normalized and ubiquitous.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy infrastructure in our three areas of focus 1) building and running blockchain daemons, 2) building and running staking validators, and 3) building and running our next generation wallet infrastructure
• Write code to develop tools and automation that integrate these systems in a secure way
• With a focus on our next generation wallet infrastructure, improve the capabilities of the existing infrastructure with a mindset towards infrastructure as code
• Improve availability and reliability while maintaining acceptable security, especially in monitoring and automation
• Integrate the use of cloud-based security mechanisms into the build infrastructure. Example security mechanisms include identity and access management and key management
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) scenarios to validate operability of physical and digital material

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years implementing cloud software while building “infrastructure as code”
• Experience in at least one area of software development, operating systems or device driver development, hardware, secure protocols, encryption, authentication, key management, or applied cryptography
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, or others)
• Ability to read and write code in a functional or object oriented language such as Go, Java, Scala, and C/C++
• Hands-on expertise with one or more of the following including AWS EKS, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, KMS, IAM, Jenkins
• Proficiency in a common scripting language including but not limited to Python, Ruby, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and debug issues, and demonstrate a methodical approach to root cause analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; attentive to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years implementing software
• 3+ years implementing software in AWS or similar cloud provider
• 1+ years using monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling
• Previous experience in one of the three focus areas of blockchain node operations, validators as a service, and wallet infrastructure
• Experience in a code-first environment, developing automated solutions to solve support and operational issues
• Experience working with engineering teams, teaching, training, and mentoring on how to implement best-practice technical solutions
• Demonstrated ability to convert theoretical security concepts into production
• Solid understanding of Product Management and Product Ownership, Agile practices and methodologies

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off