Remote Platforms Engineer

Summary

Join Chorus One as a Platform Engineer to work collaboratively with team members and partners across projects, maintaining, scaling, and monitoring existing infrastructure to provide secure and reliable industry-leading Proof-of-Stake validation services.

Requirements

• Strong Linux skills, including a deep understanding of the kernel and userspace
• Strong networking skills, including a deep understanding of routing, forwarding, and load-balancing
• Has prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools. We use Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Salt
• Is able to develop tooling, and monitoring solutions where none exist and can debug unreliable software - many of the projects we run are of alpha quality
• Possesses good knowledge of security as it relates to bare metal and cloud-based infrastructure
• We expect candidates to know one programming language in addition to Bash, and we test for this with a coding interview. We don’t expect you to be a seasoned software engineer, but we do expect you to be comfortable writing small programs
• Popularly used languages at Chorus One are Python, Golang and Rust
• Is able to work independently, with a high level of ambiguity and undefined requirements

Responsibilities

• Maintain, scale and monitor existing infrastructure, including bare metal servers, cloud machines, and a Kubernetes cluster, to allow Chorus One to provide secure and reliable industry-leading Proof-of-Stake validation services
• Institute monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure. Enable other team members to attend to and troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Take all steps required to ensure maximum availability and uptime of maintained blockchain networks. This includes routine and emergent application updates, monitoring of systems, timely response to alerts and on-call phone calls, as well as rapid response to mitigate site outages
• Develop software related to blockchain data extraction or interchain communication, on an as-needed basis
• Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management, server hardening, and intrusion detection are important themes

Benefits

• Autonomy and ownership in a friendly and supportive work environment and the opportunity for rapid growth
• Competitive fixed compensation (USD 100k - 140k) + equity
• All-expense paid biannually team retreats at various destinations (Coronavirus permitting). Past retreats took place in Egypt, Serbia, Kenya, USA, South Korea, and Dubai
• Remote, but not alone. We are a strong global collaborative environment
• Remote working budget (Laptop, co-working space, etc)
• Personal development budget