About the company
Blockchain.com (formerly Blockchain.info) is a cryptocurrency financial services company. The company began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transactions between 2012 and 2020. It also operates a cryptocurrency exchange and provides institutional markets lending business and data, charts, and analytics.
Job Summary
WHAT YOU WILL DO
📍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.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
📍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.