Infrastructure Engineer

Chainstack is the leading suite of services connecting developers with Web3 infrastructure, powering applications in DeFi, NFT, gaming, analytics, and everything in between. 

From startups to large enterprises, Chainstack enables thousands of companies to cut down the time to market, costs, and risks associated with creating and scaling decentralized applications. By offering fast, reliable, and easy-to-use infrastructure solutions distributed globally, we make sure innovators can focus on what’s important. 

We're looking for a talented Infrastructure Engineer who will share our passion to make Chainstack infrastructure automated, robust, resilient, and predictable.

Our Stack:

• AWS / GCP / Azure / Virtuozzo / OVH
• Nginx and Telegraf
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Helm, Terraform/Terragrunt, and Ansible
• Python and/or Go
• MySQL, Redis, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL
• GitHub and CircleCI
• HashiCorp Vault
• Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, and ELK

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and continuously improve the reliability and scalability of our services
• Develop and manage complex hybrid infrastructure (primarily multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters) with Infrastructure as Code
• Manage incidents and participate in on-call rotation
• Improve monitoring and alerting of our platform
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation.
• Actively work on solutions to reduce workload by automating repetitive processes
• Plan, design, and execute solutions to reach specific goals agreed upon within the team
• Identify parts of the system that do not scale, provide immediate workaround measures, and drive long-term resolution.
• Improve documentation all around, explaining the why, not stopping with the what
• Know a domain really well and radiate that knowledge to other team members

Requirements:

• Experience in operating mission-critical services and being responsible for reliability/uptime/SLA
• Production experience on containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc), infrastructure automation tools (Helm, Terraform, Ansible, etc), monitoring solutions (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc), and public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Programming skills in Python and/or Go
• Think about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations
• Proficient in Linux and the shell
• Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
• Have the urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice
• An exceptional intellectual drive to go deeper down the blockchain rabbit hole

We Offer:

• Salary in USD
• Stock options
• Bleeding edge tech stack
• Lack of bureaucracy
• Flexible schedule
• Global fast-growing market
• Multinational team