Senior Infrastructure Engineer/SRE

Summary

Join Dune, a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform used by thousands, as a Systems Engineer. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure. Design and maintain highly reliable containerized environments, ensuring seamless operation of critical systems. Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to enhance efficiency. Contribute to maintaining high system reliability and scalability. This role requires proven expertise in managing bare-metal infrastructure and containerized environments, experience with infrastructure-as-code, and strong understanding of system performance. Dune offers a competitive salary and equity, remote-first work, generous PTO, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in managing and optimising bare-metal infrastructure and containerised environments
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools
• Strong understanding of system performance, debugging, and optimization across diverse environments
• Ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals and system design
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote setting, contributing to a positive and inclusive team culture

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure the infrastructure meets the demanding performance, reliability, and scalability needs of our products
• Embrace the Platform team's mission to empower product teams with efficient, low-overhead services by developing and maintaining robust infrastructure and scalable services
• Design and maintain highly reliable containerized environments, ensuring seamless operation of our critical systems
• Analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks, proposing and implementing solutions to enhance infrastructure efficiency
• Contribute to maintaining high system reliability and scalability, focusing on unique and challenging technical problems

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a systems or infrastructure engineer in a collaborative, problem-solving environment
• Experience with distributed systems and managing large-scale, high-availability environments
• Hands-on experience with Nomad or Kubernetes for workload orchestration in production environments
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible and Terraform, with a proven ability to automate and manage complex systems
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools for infrastructure performance
• Familiarity with cloud cost management and performance improvement strategies
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working across multiple time zones

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package
• Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you)
• A fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
• Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard
• We believe in paid parental leave to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule
• Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun
• On top of this each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days
• An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk