Syndica is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Golang engineer at Syndica to design, implement, and operate their blockchain infrastructure platform. The role requires 3+ years of related professional experience using Golang, experience with Prometheus/Grafana, automation tools/platforms, alerting and monitoring tools, and working in a highly distributed company.

Requirements

• 3+ years related professional experience using Golang
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive
• Some working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)
• Experience writing automation tools & eagerness to 'automate all the things
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Design, creation, and provisioning of infrastructure
• Write beautiful maintainable Golang code - idiomatic Go!
• Create modular and extensible micro-services to support the platform
• Build a reliable fault-tolerant service
• Identify and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment
• Evaluate performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity, and establish the appropriate scalability plans
• Troubleshoot and solve customer platform issues
• Ensure that SLAs are met in executing operational tasks
• Collaborate with other engineers to implement operational solutions while defining and adhering to industry best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana for metrics aggregation/visualization is plus
• Experience with automation tools/platforms
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools is plus
• Experience working in a highly distributed company is a plus
• Align a portion of your day with the business hours of Central Time Zone - UTC -6