Site Reliability Engineer

About Dune

Dune is on a mission to make crypto data accessible. We’re a collaborative multichain analytics platform used by thousands of developers, analysts, & investors to understand the onchain world and the frontiers of finance. We’re a team of ~55 employees, working together across Europe and eastern US timezones 🌍️. We believe in our mission, and in building a powerful, open product that allows individuals and communities to do deep research into important ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many more.

We’re backed by some of the worlds best investors. In February 2022, we announced our Series B funding round led by Coatue and Union Square Ventures, an important milestone that allowed us to double down on our mission. We’re using the funds to educate, reward and empower a new generation of onchain analysts aka Wizards 🧙‍♀️

If you want to have one of the highest impact jobs on the planet, come join our wonderful team of Galaxy brains.

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Dunes Vision

Values and working at Dune

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure the infrastructure meets the demanding performance, reliability, and scalability needs of our products.

• Embrace the Platform teams mission to empower product teams with efficient, lowoverhead services by developing and maintaining robust infrastructure and scalable services.

• Design and maintain highly reliable containerized environments, ensuring seamless operation of our critical systems.

• Analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks, proposing and implementing solutions to enhance infrastructure efficiency.

• Contribute to maintaining high system reliability and scalability, focusing on unique and challenging technical problems.

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  You might be a great fit for this role if you:

  • Have proven expertise in managing and optimising baremetal infrastructure and containerised environments.

  • Have experience with infrastructureascode and orchestration tools.

  • Strong understanding of system performance, debugging, and optimization across diverse environments.

  • Have the ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

  • Have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals and system design.

  • Have the ability to work collaboratively in a remote setting, contributing to a positive and inclusive team culture.
    

  • Desired Qualifications

    • 5+ years of experience as a systems or infrastructure engineer in a collaborative, problemsolving environment.

    • Experience with distributed systems and managing largescale, highavailability environments.

    • Handson experience with Nomad or Kubernetes for workload orchestration in production environments.

    • Proficiency in infrastructureascode tools like Ansible and Terraform, with a proven ability to automate and manage complex systems.

    • Experience with baremetal infrastructure.

    • Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.

    • Experience with monitoring and observability tools for infrastructure performance.

    • Familiarity with cloud cost management and performance improvement strategies.

    • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

    • Experience working across multiple time zones.

    • Based in the US East Coast (EST) or Europe West (GMT or CEST).

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      Perks & Benefits

      • A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies in the space

      • Our employee equity scheme has worldclass employeefriendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10year exercise window

      • 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you) 🏖

      • A fully remotefirst approach 🧑‍💻 within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day

      • Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings!

      • Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard 🩺

      • We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2week parttime phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule

      • Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 and Athens 🇬🇷).

      • On top of this 👆each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and cowork with someone or a team of people for a few days.

      • An allowance for your athome setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local coworking space, we’ll pay for your desk.

      • Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet!

      • And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎
        

      • We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.