Platforms Engineer

Summary

Join Chorus One, a leading operator of infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks, as a Platform Engineer. You will maintain, scale, and monitor existing infrastructure, including cloud machines, bare-metal servers, and a Kubernetes cluster. Responsibilities include developing software, improving infrastructure security, and ensuring maximum uptime. The ideal candidate possesses strong Linux and networking skills, experience with orchestration tools, and the ability to work independently in an ambiguous environment. Chorus One offers competitive compensation, equity, team retreats, remote work options, a remote working budget, a personal development budget, and opportunities to grow within the vibrant crypto ecosystem.

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 are not just looking for someone who can configure an existing cloud solution, but we are looking for someone who can build the infrastructure underlying a cloud
• 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
• You are able to work in the following time zone: Switzerland ± 6 hours

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

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related subject is a plus, but not strictly needed

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
• Gather experience and build your network in the vibrant crypto ecosystem
• Learn about state-of-the-art protocols that lay the foundation for an open, transparent, and programmable financial system