Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Security at Caldera, a blockchain scalability startup located in San Francisco. The role involves owning significant components of the core infrastructure, architecting and developing backend systems, improving DevOps pipeline, increasing infrastructure reliability, maintaining and enhancing security posture, and working with AWS and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Have 4+ years of engineering experience
• Have experience writing backend services in Go or Typescript
• Have experience with cloud technologies, especially Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm
• Hands-on experience with cloud / infrastructure providers, including AWS, Vercel, and Cloudflare

Responsibilities

• Own significant components of Caldera's core infrastructure
• Architect and develop backend systems to ensure the smooth operation of Caldera chains
• Improve our DevOps pipeline, which allows Caldera chains to be deployed reliably and securely
• Increase the reliability of our infrastructure by continuously improving the observability stack
• Maintain and enhance the security posture of our cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Keen eye for security, solid understanding of threat modeling and secure system architecture
• Are confident with performance optimization, identifying bottlenecks and scalability concerns
• Have familiarity with observability tools like Grafana or Datadog
• Bonus points if you are familiar with how blockchains like Ethereum or Bitcoin work under the hood
• Bonus points if you are up-to-date with Ethereum scaling solutions such as sidechains or rollups
• Bonus points if you have an understanding of cryptography primitives, such as hash functions or digital signatures
• Bonus points if you have built Ethereum ‘dapps’ before

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Equity grant in the company
• Full benefits