Web3 Jobs in California, United States

About The Role:

The NEAR Protocol Engineering team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work as part of all core engineering teams to help cope with the operational load of a fast growing team. At NEAR Protocol, we must deliver availability, performance, efficiency, monitoring and emergency response, all while enabling decentralization of the NEAR Protocol's Open Web infrastructure. We are looking for a person to join our distributed on-call rotational team and help us create a self-sustaining blockchain infrastructure.

This is a high-productivity and highly dynamic startup environment so you will need to be comfortable operating quickly but precisely amidst changing needs. There is opportunity to inject your creativity in almost any aspect of blockchain development.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Together with the engineering team you will share the 24/7 on-call rotation (including weekends compensated with day-offs during the week).
• Help build self-driving services which run and repair themself
• Help define SLOs and mission critical metrics
• Drive our incident management response processes
• Build an emergency response playbook with monitoring and alerting
• Work with our core blockchain, middleware, and apps teams to deliver secure and high availability services
• Collaborate with a geographically distributed team, work in the open as part of the NEAR Protocol open source project, and engage with NEAR Protocol's global community

What We're Looking For:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proven ability to be effective on a distributed team.
• Passion for open source.
• Preferable Python coding skills.
• Preferable understanding of UNIX internals.
• Sharp troubleshooting skills, no problem is impossible to solve.
• Experience with cloud provisioning tooling like Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Docker.
• Experience with monitoring infrastructure like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog.
• Experience with CI infrastructure such as Travis, CircleCI, or Jenkins.
• Experience in keeping services up 24/7.
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field is a must

We'd Love If You Have:

• Experience with the Rust programming language
• Experience with multiple cloud providers AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of blockchain technologies.

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under three weeks. Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
• Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-60 minutes)
• Technical & Leadership Interviews (4 x 60 minutes)
• Culture & Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

Locations:Remote (North and South America, Europe)