BlockFi is hiring a

Web3 Staff Observability Engineer

BlockFi is looking for a Staff Observability Engineer to join our growing team!

About Your Team

The Observability team helps the product and engineering organizations explore and understand our most critical systems. We must find the balance of sorting through the noise to find the signal using deep knowledge of our platform. Our team's mission is to provide tools and infrastructure to enable BlockFi engineers to build product features, shepherd them to production with confidence, and monitor them in production to ensure optimal system performance.

Your Mission

As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle hands-on, high impact work as we develop a platform built for global scale. You will proactively identify problems, design and implement technical solutions and tools, and mentor and teach more junior engineers. We are looking for detail-oriented senior engineers who have real world distributed systems experience at scale.

• Architect/Design: Ensure architecture and design decisions are aligned with business vision, and that our systems are built for availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and security from the ground up.
• Deliver: Execute on plans and designs, ensuring that teams adhere to quality standards through cross-team communication, mentoring, code review, and backlog grooming.
• Elevate: Continuously improve engineering standards, processes, planning, solutions, and efficiency. Guide engineers in focusing on outcomes and carefully considering business goals, trade offs, quality attributes, cross-cutting concerns, and risks.
• Adapt: Quickly learn new tools and technologies, develop an understanding of existing systems, and identify and tackle high impact work.
• Own: Monitor system health; ensure alerts, metrics, and runbooks are in place; debug issues in prod; and ensure that more junior engineers are getting the help they need.

Your Expertise

• Technical Breadth and Depth in Observability: Solid industry experience working with, designing, and building Observability solutions at scale.
• Technical Ownership: Experience owning software systems end-to-end, designing, estimating, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production.
• Communication: Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to listen and learn from as well as explain complex ideas to stakeholders of varying levels of technical expertise.
• Collaboration: Demonstrable experience with establishing strong relationships with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, integrating a variety of perspectives (end users, product, engineering, etc.).
• Initiative and focus on outcomes: Prepared to take on high impact work across contexts and as the need arises, working independently and taking initiative while maintaining transparency and collaboration.
• Adaptive: Ability and motivation to quickly learn new languages, technologies and tools. Pragmatic bias toward outcomes, and technical decisions that solve real business problems.
• Exposure and expertise with:
  • Logging systems and concepts, such as ELK, Splunk, and Grafana Loki
  • Metrics monitoring systems, such as Grafana and Prometheus
  • Distributed tracing platforms such as Jaeger and Honeycomb
  • Infrastructure paradigms such as Kubernetes and AWS ECS
  • AWS CloudTrail and EventBridge

Your Perks:

We benefit from the great work our employees do each day. That is why we are committed to providing a variety of awesome benefits to help them live their best lives.

• Competitive salary because we value your experience and expertise
• Unlimited vacation / sick days because everyone deserves time for R&R
• Employer contribution towards health coverage (including vision & dental) because your physical health and well-being is important to us
• Various fringe benefits such as 401k, Parental Leave, FSA/HSA, and Employee Assistance Programs because health coverage is more than just choosing your yearly plan
• Flexible work environment because we are a geographically dispersed team and we believe in balance
• Pet insurance because all of your beloved family members should have coverage too
• Weekly lunch stipend because there is such a thing as a free lunch!
• A close-knit team of enthusiastic, collegial and driven people to work alongside in a highly meritocratic environment because teamwork makes the dreamwork

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