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About Birthday Research- Blockchain R&D wing of Cake DeFi

Birthday Research (BDR) is the Blockchain Research and Development wing of Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based blockchain, and fintech company. Fuelled by the best minds in the industry, BDR seeks to develop best-in-class blockchain innovations with the mission of enabling the next bound of Web3.

As a pioneering force, our work spans cryptographic research, deep blockchain consensus development, and smart contracts development — with a laser-sharp focus on driving the industry frontier while tackling the most demanding DeFi challenges of today. To date, one of our core contributions, DeFiChain, has garnered over 1 billion USD in total value locked on the layer-1 protocol.

We are a fast-growing, globally distributed, close-knit team of multi-disciplinary doers and getters. Join Birthday Research today to be a part of the driving force shaping the future of decentralization.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with Software Engineers to design a highly scalable and secure infrastructure to support our growth.
• Build on top of our existing infrastructure playbook and runbook to support our growth targets.
• Design, implement, manage and maintain a fleet of Multi-Region Active-Active elastic services that includes our API gateway, microservices, database, and blockchain nodes.
• Taking on an active role in improving our service design and performing security hardening of our infrastructure.
• Apply your CI/CD knowledge to design and implement various supporting processes, shift-left workflows, and tools.
• Write highly performant infrastructure codes that are clean, simple, maintainable, and battle-tested.

What you’ll need:

• Experience working in a fast pace tech-driven startup as a SysOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer with at least 2 years of experience managing cloud infrastructure or in a similar capacity.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services with automation tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Puppet, or similar.
• A strong foundation of common networking protocols such as layer 7 and layer 4 network load balancing.
• Ability to take full ownership and work independently while collaborating with others in a fast-paced agile and async team.
• A collaborative and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills able to make radical decisions while being empathetic and respectful.
• Willingness to pick up new and emerging bleeding edge blockchain technologies.
• Familiarity with container orchestration is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with web-scale data management technologies such as NoSQL, SQL Sharding, and Data Warehouse is preferred.
• Experience participating or maintaining in open source software development is highly preferred.

Why Work With Cake

• Do something with purpose; Be a part of the future that will shape on how people are dealing with their finances in Crypto and Blockchain
• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems
• International, diverse work environment and flat hierarchy
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company

Cake DeFi focuses on Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in Singapore. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.

You can view their website at https://www.cakedefi.com/