Job description

Your mission

You will be responsible for maintaining full nodes for various blockchains and finding ways to deploy and manage them more efficiently.Â
You understand blockchain-specific monitoring in great depth and you will be helping the team cut down on noise by fine-tuning alerts.Â
You will help by troubleshooting production issues to address technical commitments and boost sustainability, as well as pair with other engineers to help with troubleshooting, deploying new services, and figuring out how to increase developer velocity and eliminate pain points.

Your profile

3+ years of relevant professional experience, have an operations background and worked in a DevOps team before.
Ideally, you provide solutions for monitoring, log analysis and alerting tools.
Experience with scripting and configuration management. You can write scripts to automate routine tasks.
You have practical knowledge in most of the following technologies: Terraform, Helm Charts, Gitlab CI/CD, OpenShift, Pytest, TypeScript, Scripting Languages, e.g. Python.
Proficiency in these technology fields is needed: Containerization, Ansible, Automation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloud-Computing IaaS, Software Design.
Proficiency in various blockchain technologies and applications, including: Chainlink, and/or Pyth, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Lido, SupraOracles.

Preferred Knowledge

Experience running blockchain full nodes would give you a considerable advantage in this role; excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and decentralized finance.
Setup and management of Kubernetes clusters and you feel comfortable deploying completely new services on them.
Know how with exporting metrics via Prometheus, an building Grafana dashboards.
Having worked with SQL before (ideally PostgreSQL).
A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself.
Good experience working with GCP, AWS or Microsoft Azure.
Agility, self-organization, and open to learning.
Experience in the financial service and/or capital market domain.
Result orientation, conceptual and analytical thinking.
Collaborative by nature; willing to give and receive feedback.
You have fun at doing your work and hence being good at it.
Very good English skills.
Ideally you are located in Central Europe (CET timezone) or +/- 2 hours away from it.

Why us?

Become part of a young and agile team. Grow with BLOCKSIZE!
Work up to 100% remotely or enjoy the office in Frankfurt's financial district.
Temporary work from abroad, that allows working up to 6 months a year from anywhere in the world.
Continuous and qualitatively unique further training is desired for you.
Excellent infrastructure and benefits (Apple Equipment, Coursera, gym classes, etc.).
Employee Stock Ownership program.

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About us

BLOCKSIZE is the leading provider for accurate crypto market data distributed through own oracle blockchain node infrastructure. We empower Decentralized Applications as well as traditional financial institutions to trade, issue, store and manage digital assets through our high quality market data and resilient blockchain node infrastructure. We are on a mission to become the largest Decentralized Oracle Node Operator and Validator Node Operator in the Web3 space to empower the next generation of financial applications.

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