Site Reliability Engineer - Core

As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Core team at Blockchain, you will help us securely scale a distributed financial platform that serves millions of users daily. You'll work at a global crypto company with over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, having facilitated over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since 2011. The SRE team combines software and systems engineering to provide a platform that abstracts complexity for increased security, reliability and rapid product delivery. You will develop in-depth understanding of our infrastructure needs, establish and maintain engineering solutions to improve customer experience through tooling, and guide developer teams so they can deliver features in a rapid, secure and scalable manner.

What you'll do

• Play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure to solve complex technical problems involving reliability, latency, bandwidth and security
• Improve observability, monitoring and alerting throughout the platform
• Coordinate work across different areas of the company to ensure efficient execution
• Centralize common streams of work that are currently duplicated across developer teams
• Write tooling to replace manual, repetitive work in a scalable way
• Guide and educate developer teams on infrastructure best practices

What you bring

• Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language
• Solid Linux knowledge, including understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals
• Experience working with cloud solutions such as GCP or AWS
• Deep understanding and demonstrable experience with modern monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, or Telegraf
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools
• Solid background with configuration management tools
• Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes, preferably Github Actions
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka
• Experience with database management

Nice to have

• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault
• Experience with Golang, Python, and Bash
• Complex Terraform deployments
• Saltstack
• Experience working in Data Centers
• Knowledge of routing and switching protocols

What we offer

• Competitive full-time salary based on experience, plus meaningful equity in the company
• Performance-based bonuses
• Apple equipment provided by the company
• Based in our Palermo office with mandatory in-office presence four days per week
• Work from Anywhere Policy allowing remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year

About Blockchain

Blockchain connects the world to the future of finance as a global crypto company trusted by over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users. The company has facilitated over $1 trillion in crypto transactions since its inception in 2011.