Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, scale, and monitor existing infrastructure, including bare metal servers, cloud machines, and a Kubernetes cluster, to allow Chorus One to provide secure and reliable industry-leading Proof-of-Stake validation services.
• Institute monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure.
• Enable other team members to attend to and troubleshoot problems as they arise.
• Take all steps required to ensure maximum availability and uptime of maintained blockchain networks. This includes routine and emergent application updates, monitoring of systems, timely response to alerts and on-call phone calls, as well as rapid response to mitigate site outages.
• Develop software related to blockchain data extraction or interchain communication, on an as-needed basis.
• Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management, server hardening, and intrusion detection are important themes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related subject is a plus, but not strictly needed.
  
• Strong Linux skills, including a deep understanding of the kernel and user space.
• Strong networking skills, including a deep understanding of routing, forwarding, and load-balancing.
• Has prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools. We use Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Salt.
• Is able to develop tooling, and monitoring solutions where none exist and can debug unreliable software – many of the projects we run are of alpha quality.
• Possesses good knowledge of security as it relates to bare metal and cloud-based infrastructure.
• We expect candidates to know one programming language, in addition to Bash. Popularly used languages in Chorus One are Python, Golang and Rust.
• Is able to work independently, with a high level of ambiguity and undefined requirements.
• You are able to work the following timezone: Switzerland +/- 6 hours.

 Salary: USD 80,000 - 150,000