closed vacancy DevOps @ Arweave - remote

Arweave
Posted 4 years ago €60k - 75k (Euros)
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DevOps

PERMANENT –ON-SITE OR REMOTE –FULL TIME

Arweave is a permanent information storage network, built on a new type of blockchain called a blockweave. We are working to solve the problem of the ‘memory hole’, as formulated by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, by building the first data storage medium that truly never forgets. Arweave works by rewarding network participants for contributing hard disk space to the network, in a similar fashion to proof of work in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Responsibilities

  • Assist and work alongside our engineering team to ensure solid, scalable infrastructure, with emphasis on security &reliability.
  • Design &maintain monitoring and alerting, as well as be in charge of on-call rotations and general processes.
  • Apply best-practices across the board, in terms of CI/CD, automation, network topology design and performance.
  • Maintain multi-datacenter cluster of servers, forming a truly global network of nodes.

Profile

  • Experience with “infrastructure as code”, with tooling such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.
  • Proven track-record of maintaining large, complex infrastructure.
  • Prior experience with cloud providers such as GCP, AWS and Digital Ocean a plus.
  • Ability to automate/improve processes with bash/golang/python/js.
  • Thorough understanding of networking, including BGP, Anycast, and ideally high-performance content delivery.
  • Working knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, TICK.
  • Log management via Datadog, Splunk, Papertrail, etc.
  • Being able to squeeze every last bit of performance out, down to the kernel level.
  • Experience with Erlang and/or distributed systems in general is a big plus.
  • Being proactive, working without a lot of supervision, passion to continually improve and take responsibility for running systems.



About Us

By providing permanent, low-cost, and truly censorship-resistant data storage for everyone, we strive to democratise the information space. To achieve this, our team has built and now supports an online, open source, blockchain-based network providing decentralised data storage distributed worldwide. 

  • We’re an English-language team of very skilled and highly motivated entrepreneurs and hackers with diverse academic and professional backgrounds.
  • In spring 2018, we graduated from the Techstars Berlin accelerator programme and have access to a worldwide network of expert advisors and investors.

Arweave is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from everybody.