Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Remote)

Calimero Network

Calimero Network

Software Engineering · Full-time, Contractor
Remote
70,000 – 80,000 USD per year
Posted on Friday, December 2, 2022

About Calimero:

Preserving the privacy of personal and business data is a necessity. On the blockchain, it can be done through combining on-chain and off-chain data and interoperability.

Calimero Network is a VC-funded startup that provides private blockchain infrastructure to businesses, enterprises and government organisations globally. It is a customizable sidechain built on top of NEAR protocol. By using Calimero private shards, among other things, users can enhance applications by interoperating with open source protocols and applications, from DeFi to NFTs. Users can hold and manage public assets and move them between private shards and other public chains seamlessly.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure, you will be working with our Infrastructure team and learn about building and maintaining reliable engineering systems that support blockchain based products and clients using it.

This is a great opportunity to join an early-stage, rapid growth, VC-backed startup in the extremely early emerging industry.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure you will:

  • Design and provide best practices in terms of cloud-infrastructure provisioning and usage of several cloud services.
  • Foster excellence in development teams in points of security, scalability, and reliability.
  • Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems for fine-grained observability of the entire infrastructure.
  • Automate the build and deployment processes for our engineering teams.
  • Provide technical guidance and tools for our engineering teams for faster releases.
  • Support the engineering teams on their microservice principles and architectural approaches.
  • Actively participate in architecture discussions and propose solutions to system and product changes across teams.
  • Be part of an on-call schedule (24x7) handling incident management to the engineering teams.
  • Write documentation and training to onboard and level up the infrastructure knowledge within the organisation.

Basic Qualifications:

  • experienced with cloud technologies such as AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
  • knowledge of application external infrastructure (eg. databases, message queues)
  • experience with monitoring and alerting technologies such as Grafana and Prometheus
  • experience with CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, CloudBuild, Argo, etc
  • VCS
  • Ability to write code for infrastructure-related tools for developers

Preferred Qualifications:

  • extensive knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud computing
  • extensive knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
  • Hands on experience with deploying and maintaining various databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc
  • Hands on experience with deploying and maintaining MQ services such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, NATS
  • Incident response management
  • Ability to build complex CI/CD pipelines
Calimero Network is an equal opportunity employer.