Senior DevOps Engineer, New Networks

Figment is the world’s leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. We provide the most comprehensive staking solution for our over 200+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders to earn rewards on their crypto assets. These clients rely on Figment’s institutional staking service including rewards optimization, rapid API development, rewards reporting, partner integrations, governance, and slashing protection. Figment is backed by industry experts, financial institutions and our global team across twenty three countries. This all leads to our mission to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web3 ecosystem.

We are a growth stage technology company – looking for people who are builders and doers. People who are comfortable plotting their course through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive impact and who are excited to work in new ways and empower a generative company culture.

About the Role

We run 70+ blockchains here at Figment. Come help us onboard more!

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale out our operations by planning and implementing projects to manage fleets of blockchain servers. This role presents unique opportunities to be involved in building out tooling where none exists in the industry. You will build production systems that need to handle newer (sometimes alpha quality) blockchain software. You’ll need to consider all aspects of security, monitoring, maintainability, and stability.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Lead the planning, testing, implementation, and management of projects to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments across a variety of use cases
• Identify & implement solutions for common areas where automation can significantly increase our ability to manage all our infrastructure
• Identify areas of systemic risk & evaluate, propose, and implement solutions
• Manage and monitor cloud and physical servers across multiple global hosting services and data centres
• Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes
• Perform Linux server administration, hardening, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning
• Debug complex distributed blockchains to help run them smoothly
• Identify tasks and processes that get stuck or move slowly and support the team in pushing them through
• Explain broad initiatives and vision to Engineering Leadership and Product
• Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and act as a mentor to others on the team