Remote BlockOps Engineer

Summary

Join ChainSafe, a leading blockchain research and development firm, as a Blockchain Operator (BlockOps) member with the Lodestar team. You will contribute to providing direct support to the Lodestar consensus client team and the Ethereum protocol ecosystem. Your role will involve improving collaboration and productivity by helping our team of core developers automate infrastructure, workflows, and experiments.

Requirements

• At least three years of prior DevOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability or Cloud Engineer experience
• Strong experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Experience working with Docker containers and using them in production systems
• Languages: Any modern programming language (Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript). You might need to write some code or scripts for custom tooling
• Experience working with some of the major public clouds. e.g. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, Hetzner
• Competent with the “basics” (e.g Linux usage and computer networking)
• Collaborative, communicative, and confident in their abilities to work well with all team members at all seniority and skill levels
• Deployed and managed monitoring and alerting systems based on time-series metrics E.g. Prometheus/InfluxDB, Grafana, Alertmanager, etc
• Self-motivated individual with enthusiasm for learning and building things with a results-driven attitude

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate, experiment, and architect blockchain node infrastructure such as multi-client devnets, test limitations with automated tooling such as fuzzers and specification conformance testing
• Learning about the Ethereum protocol, its roadmap, and working with external community contributors to achieve milestones
• Familiarizing and operating Ethereum consensus and execution layer clients in various advanced configurations within public and private testnets
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support Lodestar during development and release cycles
• Building and enhancing existing monitoring and logging infrastructure
• Analyze and diagnose block/client metrics, logging, and monitoring to improve the Lodestar client software
• Conduct research experiments and propose solutions to continuously improve the resiliency and continuity of Lodestar and our deployed infrastructure
• Develop and implement custom tooling as necessary to solve complex problems
• Support operating existing infrastructure as necessary, including public nodes, staking validators, and development testnets

Benefits

Flexible work hours