SRE/ Site Reliability Engineer (Middle / Senior)

Bitquery is an API-first product company dedicated to powering and solving blockchain data problems using ground truth, and on-chain data. Bitquery extracts and presents valuable data via APIs. These APIs are delivering solutions to multiple verticals like Decentralize Finance (DeFi), DEX Arbitrage Analytics, Crypto Surveillance & Forensics across all major blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, and Tezos.

We are an international company of developers of software for the analysis of decentralized data (40+ chains). Bitquery is a distributed team. Currently, are looking for a full-time SRE engineer to further develop/monitor/support the infrastructure, and automation of various processes. Also, you can be on duty with shift time.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the smooth operation of software, environments and company services
• Analyzing and improving the performance and availability of products
• Identification of bottlenecks in the architecture and in the infrastructure
• Improvement of system alerting and incident management
• Improvements of the monitoring systems based on SLI (Prometheus, Icinga, Grafana etc.)
• Formalization of SLI under the main business requirements
• Formation of SLO for services and infrastructure in general
• Minimization of system recovery time (RPO and RTO)
• Analysis of incidents in the prod environment
• Capacity management

• 5+ years of work experience implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting infrastructure software and distributed systems
• Support experience software in Golang, python , Ruby
• Worked with virtualization and containerization technologies (containerd, docker, k8s) for more than 2 years
• Set up CI of varying complexity (Jenkins) with CD to different environments
• Experience in creating and maintaining a fault-tolerant system, with log coverage, monitoring, and alerting
• Understanding the principle of "infrastructure as code" and the ability to test it (Ansible Terraform)
• Principles of organizing network security (IPsec, WAF, IPS)
• Experience with maintenance of blockchain nodes
• Availability in US timezone is required

Our Tech Stack:

• Infrastructure: Bare-metal / AWS
• Databases: Clickhouse / MySQL
• SCM: git / GitHub
• Message broker: Kafka
• Repository: Nexus
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Monitoring: Icinga 2, Grafana, Prometheus, Victoria metrics, ELK
• Orchestration: k8s, Ansible, Terraform
• Containers: LXC, Docker
• Scripting: Python, Golang, Ruby, Groovy
• OS: Debian/Ubuntu
• Others: Docker compose, IPSec

• Opportunity to work & collaborate with a truly global team spread across 5 countries
• Work from anywhere in the world
• Choose your own work hours
• Yearly trip with Bitquery team to any remote destination
• A promise to finish the interview processes within 1-2 weeks
  
  

Being a startup we take decisions & move fairly fast, while giving candidates great experience with the interview process. We have a flat hierarchy in the organization where we empower individuals and provide an opportunity to deliver results as per his/her working style. Come and join a great culture and build Bitquery with us.