About us
At Flashbots, we're building the foundations of the future Internet and financial system. As an R&D organization, we focus on MEV through our dual engines of open research and breakthrough product development – like mev-geth, Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet.
Our vibe is accelerationist, exceptional, kind, and independent. We are explorers, innovators, builders, and thinkers. We thrive on action, curiosity, and impact - driving the future in an iterative way while keeping an eye towards the long term version we want to see in the world.
About the role:
Flashbots is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to augment our small team. You will collaborate closely with our teams of scientists and engineers to support products like SUAVE, Flashblocks, and Rollup-Boost.
Due to working with confidential data, you may be subject to trading restriction policies.
What You’ll Do:
Common DevOps tasks
Administrate Kubernetes clusters and deployments, servers, automation, and observability, always in IaC
Partner with Engineers and Product Owners to support their work
Create automation and tooling
Unique DevOps tasks
Collaborate closely with internal and external teams to develop at the cutting edge of TEE systems
Contribute to and operate foundational infrastructure in blockchains and their rollups
Who You Are:
Genuine desire to understand the blockchain and MEV problem space.
Production experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Deep understanding of engineering principles and best practices.
Comfortable in a fast-paced, async, and remote environment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Disposed to action, finding out, and showing; curiosity to get to the root of the problems.
Kind, independently motivated, accountable, and reliable.
By default leave things better than you found them.
Nice-to-haves
Contributions to open source projects
Development of distributed systems
Experience with:
Golang and Rust
Public clouds and bare-metal hosting providers
Details that matter
Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
Attractive health coverage package for US employees
$3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant
Remote working - work from anywhere in the world
Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events
At Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.
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