Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Ansible
Docker
DevOps
Google Cloud
SECURITY
Amazon AWS

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Flexible working

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

Role overview

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 🏔️.

Metastate

10-49

Metastate is a research and engineering team focused on implementing cutting-edge research from numerous disciplines (distributed systems, PLT, zero-knowledge cryptography) and deploying them to solve hard problems in the blockchain space, such as scalability, secure smart contract languages, secure randomness or privacy. Metastate is a remote-first team, currently composed of 15 cross-disciplinary researchers and engineers located around the world. Our work culture is characterized by open-allocation, where team members have a high degree of freedom and autonomy in choosing when to work, what to work on, and whom to work with. Metastate was founded in early 2019 by @adrian_brink, @awasunyin and @cwgoes, with extensive experience in the blockchain space and who previously co-founded Cryptium Labs, a security-oriented proof-of-stake validator from the Swiss Alps.