Parity is hiring a
Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Parity, a core blockchain infrastructure company. The role involves leading multiple projects, demonstrating technical proficiency, mentoring junior engineers, collaborating with the ecosystem, improving operational excellence, and building innovative infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Linux, including security aspects, networking and virtualization (3 years minimum)
• Experience with containerization including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with configuration management (e.g. Ansible) and cloud orchestration (e.g. Terraform)
• Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Rust)
• Understanding of what a blockchain is and how to deploy a blockchain network
• On-call experience with the mindset of site reliability, including incident response and postmortem analysis
• Ability to work autonomously, be proactive, prioritize, communicate, and function in a small (partly-remote) team

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple projects across teams, owning significant technical components or complex services
• Drive the automation and coding of our infrastructure deployments, designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines
• Support Parity’s developers in their contributions to Polkadot/Kusama runtimes and the development of our Polkadot node client and the Polkadot-SDK framework, both written in Rust
• Ensure stellar code quality and provide thorough code reviews
• Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development
• Engage with the technical ecosystem, working closely with internal and external stakeholders
• Contribute to Parity’s blockchain node operations, improving the reliability of the Polkadot network by managing test and benchmark networks in the cloud and on-prem
• Enhance our observability initiatives by operating mainnet nodes for the Polkadot and Kusama Relaychain and System parachains, gathering crucial operational data for monitoring and incident response
• Conceptualize and build innovative infrastructure solutions aimed at improving the experience of working in Polkadot

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
• ���Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects
• Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
• Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
• Team and company-wide retreats
• Work laptop
• Opportunity to relocate to Germany or Portugal (with visa sponsorship)
• For employees in Germany, Portugal, and the UK: healthcare, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year) and local team events