Site Reliability Engineer at Monax Labs

  • Anywhere (100% Remote) Only
  • Monax Labs
Job Description:

What you will be doing:

  • Architecting hybrid decentralised (e.g. Ethereum, Solana, IPFS, Arweave) and centralised services (e.g. APIs, relayers, indexing services)
  • Improving our deployment automation and security
  • Writing infrastructure-as-code
  • Coordinating and mentoring engineers on our product and platform teams in deployment Making sure our systems are observable and have meaningful metrics and error handling (e.g. with Prometheus and Sentry)
  • Identifying areas for improvement in our deployments (in terms of tooling, languages, and cost) and implementing those improvements
  • Making decisions on best use of resources to improve our technical operations Helping to manage state, upgrades, and deployments
  • You’ll have a high level of autonomy and we want you to use your skills to support our engineering teams, and where necessary push back on design decisions that are sub-optimal for operations.

Requirements

So, in summary, who do we need? Someone who:

  • Has at least 3-4 years of experience as a Software Engineer or an experienced DevOps professional
  • Can read Rust, Typescript (NodeJS and frontend), Solidity (EVM code), and shell - scripts within the first few weeks
  • Has a good understanding of cloud native tooling such as Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus
  • Has real world experience of collaborating on code through Git
  • Has a good understanding of Kubernetes
  • Has a knowledge of GCP - in particular Cloud SQL and Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Has experience of multi-server non-trivial cloud deployments
  • Has experience in the trenches of incidents in live systems
  • Has excellent organisational skills and a keen attention to detail
  • Has previous experience working in a fast-moving and evolving environment
  • Has excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Can communicate in a empathetic and supportive manner

Nice to have:

  • Experience with a venture-funded, high-growth technology/fintech startup
  • Experience in blockchain
  • A keen interest and understanding of NFTs, DeFi and Cryptocurrencies
  • Experience working in a remote and distributed team would be great, but it’s not essential

We are very keen to see candidates from a range of backgrounds and experiences. You may not fit exactly every requirement we have. What’s more important is that you have the demonstrable skills and experience we need. It is important that you are able to engage, and on occasion back yourself in honest and respectful discussions with colleagues. You are able to change your mind about something after consideration.

Benefits

What can we offer you?

  • High level of autonomy, freedom and self direction
  • Marketable experience in the blockchain and legal tech spaces
  • Remote working to fit the way you live your life. Currently Monax is fully remote.
  • Join a fast moving start up at an exciting time as we scale up
  • The chance to contribute to projects at the cutting edge of blockchain technologies
  • Friendly, positive and empathetic culture
  • Token Allocation Equity

About Monax

  • Monax Labs’ mission is to make NFT transactions safe, secure, and legal.

  • To build successfully in Web 3 you need a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We want applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

  • UK based candidates should have the right to work in the UK, sponsorship is unavailable. UK wide remote available. European remote available for the right candidate.

  • We are a remote team and although we hire globally, there is a preference for this - role to be located in the UK, US or Europe to ensure proper collaboration across teams.

Company Benefits

  • New Mac/Laptop
  • 29 days annual leave - to use as you wish - only 1 fixed day
  • Flexible working - currently Monax is a fully remote firm with employees in the UK, - Europe, East and West Coast USA and South Africa
  • Our team have the freedom to work (within reason) around the way they live
  • High level of autonomy and self direction
  • Equity
  • Annual compensation reviews

Interview Process

  • 1st stage - Recruiter / People Team interview
  • 2nd stage - Online Technical assessment
  • 3rd Stage - SRE Lead / CTO Technical interview

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