Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Ansible
Docker
DevOps
Google Cloud
Security
TERRAFORM
Amazon AWS

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Flexible working
Team workouts
Conference tickets
Unlimited vacation
Travel opportunities

Evaluate, deploy, monitor, and maintain the latest generation of proof-of-stake blockchain networks

Role overview

We are looking for a network engineer interested in distributed ledger technology to build, improve, and scale our physical and cloud-based proof-of-stake validation infrastructure. As a blockchain infrastructure engineer, you will work with us in evaluating, deploying, monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading consensus & validation nodes on the most novel and experimental blockchain networks.

This role offers the chance to work closely with a team on compelling cross-disciplinary problems in computer science, cryptography, and economics, and enjoy a high degree of independence in working conditions and prioritization.

Responsibilities

Keep track, evaluate, and provide insights into and analysis of novel proof-of-stake distributed ledger protocols
Build, improve, maintain, and upgrade our validator software and hardware infrastructure
Deploy blockchain consensus nodes in testnets and mainnets, monitor proactively for performance bottlenecks and unusual behavior, optimize performance in production
Monitor network traffic and configure physical & virtual minimal-permission access control for fault isolation
Automate and scale infrastructure configuration as networks grow

Qualifications

Experience with administrating Linux systems and with configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, Docker)
Experience with cloud platform services and tooling (GCP, AWS)
Experience with metrics collection and monitoring
Working understanding of TCP/IP network stack
Online availability for unforeseen remotely-fixable issues
Travel availability when necessary for in-person fixes
Self-motivated & self-organized

Bonus Qualifications

Prior experience and interest in blockchain technology
Experience in building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
Experience in deploying and scaling high-performance database software
Interest in and experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)

Misc

Competitive compensation in a negotiable mix of salary and equity. Remote or local (Zürich/Zug, Berlin). When remote, located in Central Europe. Ideally someone who enjoys nature and hiking 🏔️.

Heliax

10-49

Heliax is a research, development, and product company dedicated to bringing novel research to bear on the hardest problems in the distributed ledger space and making self-sovereign and privacy-preserving technologies accessible worldwide. Our Work Heliax is the core development team building the Anoma Network, a layer 1, proof-of-stake, blockchain protocol that deploys cutting edge research in zero-knowledge cryptography and distributed systems design to enable private, asset-agnostic cash, bartering among any number of parties, and coordination mechanisms at large scale. Our Research Heliax's R&D team distills novel research across many disciplines, such as zero-knowledge cryptography, programming language theory, and computer science with the aim of building open-source tools that contribute to solving the bottlenecks in the blockchain industry. Some of our past projects include: Juvix, a dependently-typed high-level language for developing smart contracts, which is platform agnostic and able to output efficiently executable code. MASP, a zero-knowledge cryptographic scheme implemented in Rust that enables multi-denomination privacy sets Our Culture Heliax is a remote-first company with +20 team members located around the world. Our culture is defined by the following principles: Shaping the industry: join the vanguard of the emerging blockchain industry and work on problems that have never been solved before and on building systems and products that were not possible before. Remote first: from Canada, United States, Brazil, the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Taiwan, Japan– work from whenever you want. Open allocation: high degree of autonomy and flexibility. Team gatherings: from company-wide to team-specific gatherings to research and industry conferences.

Typed Functional Programming

Team Workouts

Conference Tickets