About Status
Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.Â
With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.
As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.Â
As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).
As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.Â
We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.
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About Codex
We are a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. Weâre building the next generation storage engine that attempts to âuntie the knotâ of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward.
Weâre looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong industry background in all aspects of DevOps and related tasks.
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The role
You'll focused on automating and optimizing software development processes and infrastructure management and ensuring the reliability, stability, and security of our systems and software applications.
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Who you are
You have strong Linux Fundamentals:
- Distros and package managers
- Good understanding of process management
You have programming experience:
- At least a few languages and showing the ability to learn
- Bash as a minimum; Python, Groovy would be nice
You have experience in Continuous Integration:
- Jenkins CI - Pipelines are written in Groovy
- GitHub Actions - PR builds, mostly
You have experience in Security:
- Good understanding of OpenSSH
- GnuPG for encryption of secrets and backups
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Bonus points if
Experience in Continuous Integration:Â
- JenkinsÂ
- GitHub Actions
- Nix / NixOS
Experience building the following processes:
- Gradle, Maven, Yarn, FDroid - for Android
- XCode, Fastlane, Gems, clj - for iOS
- AppImage, Qt, DeployQt - for Linux
- VS Build Tools, MinGw, Scoop - for Windows
- Brew, CMake, XCode CodeSign - for MacOS
Experience in the following programming languages:
- Groovy scripting
- Go programming
Experience in Infra automation:
- Ansible and Terraform
- Kubernetes
Windows fundamentals:
- Windows Server Core administration using PowerShell
Decentralized Software:
- Fundamental to messaging and other functions of the App
- Ethereum, Status-go, Nimbus, IPFS, Swarm
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Compensation
We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
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Hiring process
- Interview with the Talent team
- Interview with the Head of Infrastructure
- Interview with DevOps Engineer of the Blockchain team
- Assessment (paid)
- Final interview with Codex Team Lead
[The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline]