👋 It’s great to meet you. Thanks for taking the time to read about our latest job opening. Read on to find out more about Blocknative, get some insights into the role we are hiring for, and learn about our process.
Blocknative is the leading platform for real-time crypto applications. We count many of the top DeFi and NFT projects as customers and we power many top trading operations. Our product portfolio includes Mempool Explorer, Gas Platform, Onboard, and our API and SDK.
At Blocknative, you’ll be designing tools used by some of the top blockchain projects. As a DevOps hire, we’re excited to have you join our team to help build foundational blockchain infrastructure.
You’ll join our highly skilled team and help us launch reliable products and services. We’re looking for your skills to help us improve our in-house systems. You’ll work closely with our CTO as we apply the latest and greatest technologies to our stack.
Responsibilities:
Manage multi-region cloud infrastructure for overall service reliability, scalability, and cost
Build the foundation for an operations team and its practices that will grow with the company
Develop, manage, and enhance deployment infrastructure to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and reliable
Build and improve tools and automation to efficiently utilize infrastructure
Respond to incidents and support the engineering team with its product incident response strategy
Lead postmortems and root cause analysis to help us continuously improve
Preferred* Experience:
Ethereum experienced — proficient with the core concepts in the space
AWS cloud services and tooling
Infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Terraform and Ansible
Containerization techniques and strategies, including Docker and Kubernetes
Infrastructure monitoring, such as collecting, processing and analysis of metrics from tools such as Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Datadog
Streaming pipeline architectures
You have a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and build solid working relationships across the team — from individual contributors to the CEO
* We prioritize people above all else. If you think you’d add to the depth and diversity of our team but don’t fit these qualifications exactly, we want you to apply!
Fun Facts:
We’re a bunch of data nerds 🤓
Our CTO started his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab building real-time data streaming software
We’ve published several reports that have been well received in the space: