Role

We are looking for a devops engineer to join our team in Santa Clara, California. As a member of the team you will be critical to the design, deployment and expansion of the Taraxa protocol through deployment of testnets and the mainnet. You will be working on a fast-paced and rapidly-growing project with global impact.

Why work for Taraxa?

You will have the opportunity to work with a growing, talented and dynamic team collectively focused and highly driven to develop next generation blockchain technology that will revolutionize IoT ecosystems, business practices, and emerging machine-to-machine economies.

Responsibilities

• Redesign (as necessary) and scale our existing blockchain network (k8s, elastic, fluentd, docker) infrastructure to enable large-scale stress testing and security attack simulations

• Design and scale infrastructure to support our application rollout with global accessibility

• Design and clearly document tools to help community members onboard, operate, upgrade, and report bugs in nodes on the network

• Design tools to perform stability and performance evaluations on the decentralized ledger network as well as the application backends

• Maintain our CI/CD process and tooling

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an environment where latency, reliability, and security are critical success factors

• Proficiency with cloud orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible)

• Proficiency with shell scripting

• Experience with at least one of the mainstream cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS)

• Experience in managing a CI/CD pipeline (e.g., Jenkins, TravisCI)

• Authorized to work in the US (we provide visa sponsorships as needed)

Bonus

• Experience with large-scale server infrastructure and distributed systems

• Experience with open source software development

• Experience with running blockchain network nodes (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum)

• Ability to write clear and concise technical documentation