At Babylon, we are at the forefront of web3 innovation by developing elegant and complex blockchain systems. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will spearhead the complete lifecycle of Babylon PoS networks and performant dApps.
About You
You are a Senior DevOps engineer who is highly adaptable and thrives on wearing many hats. You love learning from others, as well as helping them out. You are a team player, direct and open-minded. You strive to deliver, have high work standards and are a responsible individual.
What You’ll Do
You’ll be wearing many hats, doing a fusion of DevOps, Site Reliability and Platform engineering. Your responsibilities include:
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Own the onboarding process of services to production infrastructure, including:
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Producing Proof of Concepts for the deployment of blockchain networks and dApps
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Identifying hosting needs and rightsizing infrastructure for high availability
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Planning and executing performance benchmarking strategies and load-testing to identify bottlenecks
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Owning CDN caching, DNS and security configuration to achieve low latency
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Strive for high uptime and swift incident resolution for live services:
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Set up fine-grained monitoring and alerting rules
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Enforce thoroughly tested disaster recovery procedures
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Lead incident response procedures by being part of the DevOps on-call rotation scheme
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Operate scalable Kubernetes clusters and several in-house platform offerings, including:
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Bitcoin nodes (bitcoind), indexers (electrs, ord) and explorers (mempool)
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Databases (Redis, MongoDB, MariaDB) and queuing systems (RabbitMQ)
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Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Loki, Promtail, Sentry)
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Collaborate closely with other teams to drive bug identification and resolution, as well as advocate for the adoption of production-ready practices
Requirements:
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
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2+ years of experience in operating secure Cosmos SDK and Bitcoin infrastructure (additional blockchain ecosystems and mainnet experience are a plus)
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2+ years of experience in operating highly available containerized web application systems on Kubernetes (web-3 native systems are a plus)
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Strong Top-3 cloud management experience (AWS preferred)
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Experience in Kubernetes application packaging (Helm Charts) and deployment (fluxcd, GitHub Actions)
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Proficiency in Linux management and scripting
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Experience in Terraform scripting
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Experience in operating open-source observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
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Ability to manage competing priorities and respond swiftly to incidents
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Fluent oral and written communication in English
Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Babylon Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring secured Bitcoin staking to the world. Supported by top venture funds like Paradigm, Polychain Capital, Bullish, Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, Framework Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, OKX Ventures, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of trustless Bitcoin staking!
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What We Do
At Babylon, we envision a future where Bitcoin and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chains thrive together. Our mission is to build a Bitcoin-driven decentralized world by evolving Bitcoin into a trusted security backbone for PoS chains, delivering yields for bitcoin holders while fostering an integrated, secure, and decentralized economy.
We trace our genesis to a transformative research paper on Bitcoin security, an original work co-authored by our co-founders, David Tse and Fisher Yu, the founder of EigenLayer, Sreeram Kannan and co-authors. Their combined intellect and foresight have set the cornerstone of Babylon.
In a testament to our dedication to advancing the field, our research paper has been accepted by the highly-respected 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - a significant global platform for security discourse.
The project is led by a team of consensus protocol researchers from Stanford and experienced layer 1 engineers from around the world. Babylon’s mission is to scale Bitcoin to secure the decentralized world. To achieve this, Babylon utilizes the three primary facets of Bitcoin: Bitcoin as an asset, its reliable timestamping service, its most censorship-resistant blockspace in the world. To leverage these facets, Babylon is developing three innovative security-sharing protocols: Bitcoin Staking Protocol, Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol, and Bitcoin Data Availability Protocol. Through these pioneering protocols, Babylon envisions a more secure and decentralized future
