Senior Devops / SRE

You ideally will have

• Experience or interest in Ethereum and/or the ecosystem
  
• Openness to learning & using new programming languages, e.g. Nim
  
• Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef and cfEngine, etc.
  
• Experience or/and interest in working in a bare metal environment with experience with bare metal automation tooling such as Canonical MaaS, TinkerBell and OpenStack Ironic 
  
• High proficiency with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu/Debian), REST API’s, Docker, and ZFS
  
• Prior experience as a programmer/engineer using low-level languages (C, C++, etc.)
  
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

 

Bonus points if

• Experience with Nim
  
• Ability and willingness to work with a little bit of research: will be among other things to get information directly from the open-source blockchain code and deal with cases where no documentation is provided
  
• Experience with running different Ethereum nodes (Geth, OpenEthereum, Erigon, etc)
  
• Experience with running ETH2.0 validator and beacon chain nodes (Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, etc)
  
• Deep understanding and expertise on the technical level of the ETH2 protocol (such as validation, slashing, network edge cases)
  

You ideally will have

• Experience or interest in Ethereum and/or the ecosystem
  
• Openness to learning & using new programming languages, e.g. Nim
  
• Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef and cfEngine, etc.
  
• Experience or/and interest in working in a bare metal environment with experience with bare metal automation tooling such as Canonical MaaS, TinkerBell and OpenStack Ironic 
  
• High proficiency with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu/Debian), REST API’s, Docker, and ZFS
  
• Prior experience as a programmer/engineer using low-level languages (C, C++, etc.)
  
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

 

Bonus points if

• Experience with Nim
  
• Ability and willingness to work with a little bit of research: will be among other things to get information directly from the open-source blockchain code and deal with cases where no documentation is provided
  
• Experience with running different Ethereum nodes (Geth, OpenEthereum, Erigon, etc)
  
• Experience with running ETH2.0 validator and beacon chain nodes (Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, etc)
  
• Deep understanding and expertise on the technical level of the ETH2 protocol (such as validation, slashing, network edge cases)
  

• Automation of infrastructure deployment, configuration, and scaling
  
• Maintenance of monitoring, logging, and backup systems
  
• Development of continuous integration platforms and scripts
  
• Ensuring security of hosts and other online resources
  
• Daily monitoring of all services and responding to breakage and security incidents
  
• Maintaining a written knowledge base regarding all practices and processes followed by the team, including step-by-step guides, check lists, trouble-shooting tips and other resources
  
• Improving the observability of the Nimbus software by implementing additional metrics and tuning the logging output
  
• Detailed reporting of all encountered issues to the Nimbus development team