Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Aurora's infrastructure team as a Site Reliability Engineer and Software Engineer, contributing to the smooth operation of our high-performance blockchain networks. This role is a blend of reliability engineering (80%) and software engineering (20%). You will ensure high availability and failure tolerance of our infrastructure, automate configurations, and design cloud-agnostic solutions. Software engineering responsibilities involve developing sidecars, CLI tools, and processing engines. The ideal candidate is a seasoned reliability engineer with backend system experience, proficiency in Golang, and a strong understanding of SRE principles. Experience with Kubernetes and various streaming/pubsub systems is a plus.

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, with a keen eye for opportunities to eliminate toil by code and process improvements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability and failure tolerance of our infrastructure
• Automate 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
• Optimize the latency and throughput of the pub-sub infrastructure
• Incident management, monitoring, distributed tracing and recovery automation
• Develop sidecars that implement infrastructure cloud-agnostic abstractions for developers
• Develop CLI tools for pubsub and streaming infrastructure operations
• Develop a time series processing engine for our transaction simulation engine
• Develop indexers and blockchain event aggregation pipelines for monitoring purposes

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)