Coin Nodes Engineer
Blockchain.com, City of Westminster
Coin Nodes Engineer
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Blockchain.com, City of Westminster
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted today, 17 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 26fa7cdae1c44ff5a930ce948e52b5e8
Full Job Description
- You will be able to play a critical role in evolving our infrastructure as we develop solutions to complex technical problems involving reliability, latency, bandwidth and most importantly security.
- You will focus heavily on writing tooling to replace manual, repetitive work in a scalable way.
- You will work in a fast paced, and dynamic environment complementing our existing high calibre team., Hybrid model working from home & awesome office location in the heart of London
- Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
- Apple equipment
- The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
- Flexible work culture Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. You may contact our Data Protection Officer by email at dpo@blockchain.com. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller's recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.
- Deep understanding and demonstrable experience running Bitcoin Core/Cash and Ethereum (geth, parity, openethereum) nodes. Experience with other networks is a plus (Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana).
- Understanding of blockchain consensus mechanics (PoW/PoS, slashing, jailing)
- Ability to adopt new technologies
- Experience with containerization and service orchestration, including best practices and security. Experience with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul and Vault is a plus.
- Strong at automation in at least one programming language, preferably Python/Golang.
- Linux, including an understanding of resource allocation, network and/or internals.
- Solid background with configuration management tools.
- Experience with using GitOps and CI to make changes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools. Experience with complex terraform deployments is a plus.
- Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka.
- Experience with database management.
- Experience working in Data Centers is a plus.
- Knowledge of routing and switching protocols is a plus.
Blockchain is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.