Senior DevOps Engineer

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October 3

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Stacks

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Crypto • Blockchain • Fintech

Stacks is a leading Layer 2 solution designed to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) that leverage Bitcoin's security features. The platform introduces sBTC, a Bitcoin-backed asset that facilitates the movement of BTC between Bitcoin's Layer 1 and Stacks. Stacks aims to unlock over $1 trillion in potential Bitcoin capital while providing a fast, secure infrastructure for DeFi and other applications.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters across production, staging, and testnet environments. • Build and manage API Gateway infrastructure (Kong, Istio) for high-scale external APIs. • Deploy and monitor Chainhook-2.0 within Platform, ensuring resilient predicate registration and event streaming. • Own Stacks Public Testnet reliability, including alerting, metrics, and incident response. • Implement IaC (Terraform) for all infrastructure resources. • Improve CI/CD pipelines for internal services deployed into private Kubernetes clusters. • Enhance observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) with SLO-based alerts and distributed tracing. • Partner with blockchain and platform teams to ensure smooth rollouts and incident preparedness. • Improve the tooling and automation for building, testing, and deploying software and services • Collaborate with engineering teams on building/l launching new products and features • Evangelize and implement industry best practices to improve the security and ease-of-use of our production environment • Diagnose problems from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack • Improve operational standards, tooling, and processes • Engineer solutions to automate, and streamline monitoring and incident escalation, improve resiliency and uptime

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps/SRE roles operating high-availability distributed systems. • Deep Kubernetes expertise (StatefulSets, Operators, Service Meshes, scaling strategies). • Strong background in API infrastructure: load balancing, API Gateways (Kong, Nginx), rate limiting, caching. • Proficiency with container technologies like Docker or Containerd • Skilled in IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). • Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger/OTEL. • Strong networking knowledge (L4/L7 load balancers, TLS termination, DNS, ingress controllers). • Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, or NodeJS). • Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), ideally multi-cloud. • Excellent communication skills and comfort working with a diverse team across time zones • Great ownership, humility, and bias to action • Able to see a problem from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions • Experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production services

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $177,000 - $207,000 • Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network • $500/mo co-working space reimbursement • $1,200/yr stipend for learning and development • $1,000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing • Daily Lunch Reimbursement (even if you’re remote!) • Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need • Family-Friendly Health Benefits • Free Life and Disability Insurance • Health and dependent care (FSA) • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave • Pre-tax commuter benefits • 401k with 3% match