Service Reliability Engineer - Sidechains

IO Global is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies which builds high-assurance blockchain infrastructure solutions for public and private sector clients. We are currently searching for a talented Service Reliability Engineer to complete our team of Service Reliability Engineers.

As an SRE at IOG you will work chiefly with one of our diverse projects – Sidechains – to plan, teach and implement fully reproducible GitOps-based operations across various pre-production and production environments on the blockchain. As part of our well-structured SRE team, you will work closely with internal domain experts to ensure high-quality, stable environments for our internal and external customers.

The principal goals of the EVM sidechain project are twofold: 1. To allow Solidity DApps and EVM development to run on Cardano. 2. To build a trustless / permissionless bridge between Cardano and its side chains to guarantee the security of user assets in comparison to more centralized / permissioned solutions.

Your mission

• Bear SRE expert knowledge into the project
• Execute on premeditated SRE procedures on behalf of the project
• Tend to project ad-hoc SRE requirements
• Make the SRE team situationally aware about the project
• Participate in the SRE on-call rotation
• Support your SRE colleagues on other projects when needed.

Requirements

Your expertise

• Experience using tools from the nix ecosystem
• Scripting and programming skills with the ability to develop custom tool integrations
• Experience using version control with git
• Experience maintaining bug tracking, code review, coverage analysis, agile tracking, and testing tools
• Experience with continuous integration tools
• Experience administering application servers, containers, and web servers
• Experience with AWS, Google Compute, or other cloud providers
• Hashicorp Nomad (or a transferable kubernetes) stack experience
• Proficient English language and communication skills
• A strong interest for, or knowledge of, statically-typed functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Purescript, or Rust
• Bonus: Specific experience with Scala
• Years of experience in build and release engineering, Linux operational excellence, and automation
• Manifest and uncompromising commitment to the principles of GitOps
• Ability to work well on your own and with a team, valuing cooperation and collaboration above all, you need good communication skills for this role.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution we are ideally searching for someone in a European timezone.

All Colleagues

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work - ability to work anywhere
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan

US Employees

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem with 100% premium cost covered by IO Global for the employee and dependents
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance

UK Employees

• Monthly Health Stipend to use towards any wellness or medical coverage/service
• Pension