Aurora Labs is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team of smart, professional, result-oriented and fun individuals to help ensure that our background processes run smoothly while we are striving to become the best in the industry.

Requirements

• Experience with Devops or 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

• Build and support critical systems required for running and accessing NEAR and Aurora networks
• Process load balancing, caching, queueing, transaction simulation and block production
• Implement core pieces of functionality such as Mempool management, NEAR chunk distribution, transaction pre-processing and simulation
• 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
• Optimizing the latency and throughput of the pub-sub infrastructure
• Incident management, troubleshooting, monitoring, distributed tracing and recovery automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with Go or other system-oriented programming languages
• 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
• 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)