Remote Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Aurora Labs as a Reliability Engineer to help ensure the smooth operation of critical systems for their blockchain network. The role involves both site reliability (80%) and software engineering (20%), with responsibilities including ensuring high availability, automating configuration and maintenance, optimizing latency and throughput, and working on various software engineering projects.

Requirements

• Strong emphasis on SRE as an engineering subject area, with proficiency in Golang
• Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software developer
• Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration and testing methodologies
• Understanding of base internet infrastructure services including DNS, HTTP, server virtualization, server monitoring in critical, large scale distributed systems
• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Ensuring high availability and failure tolerance of our infrastructure
• Automating configuration and maintenance of software components such as K8s, NATS, Influxdb, Postgres, Cloudflare using e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Helm and kubernetes operators
• Design and implementation of cloud-agnostic solutions without exclusively relying on specific cloud vendors
• Validator and RPC nodes management automation
• Optimizing the latency and throughput of the pub-sub infrastructure
• Incident management, monitoring, distributed tracing and recovery automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework, controllers and CRDs
• Experience with streaming and pubsub systems such as NATS, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar
• Hardware bootstrap and associated security
• Structured or unstructured storage and caching
• Automating operations processes via services and tools
• Configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or others
• Cloud Services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront or equivalent)