DevOps @ Arweave (Berlin, Germany)

DevOps

PERMANENT ON-SITE OR REMOTE FULL TIME

Arweave is a permanent information storage network, built on a new type of blockchain called a blockweave. We are working to solve the problem of the memory hole, as formulated by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, by building the first data storage medium that truly never forgets. Arweave works by rewarding network participants for contributing hard disk space to the network, in a similar fashion to proof of work in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Responsibilities

• Assist and work alongside our engineering team to ensure solid, scalable infrastructure, with emphasis on security & reliability.
• Design & maintain monitoring and alerting, as well as be in charge of on-call rotations and general processes.
• Apply best-practices across the board, in terms of CI/CD, automation, network topology design and performance.
• Maintain multi-datacenter cluster of servers, forming a truly global network of nodes.

Profile

• Experience with infrastructure as code, with tooling such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.
• Proven track-record of maintaining large, complex infrastructure.
• Prior experience with cloud providers such as GCP, AWS and Digital Ocean a plus.
• Ability to automate/improve processes with bash/golang/python/js.
• Thorough understanding of networking, including BGP, Anycast, and ideally high-performance content delivery.
• Working knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, TICK.
• Log management via Datadog, Splunk, Papertrail, etc.
• Being able to squeeze every last bit of performance out, down to the kernel level.
• Experience with Erlang and/or distributed systems in general is a big plus.
• Being proactive, working without a lot of supervision, passion to continually improve and take responsibility for running systems.

About Us

By providing permanent, low-cost, and truly censorship-resistant data storage for everyone, we strive to democratise the information space. To achieve this, our team has built and now supports an online, open source, blockchain-based network providing decentralised data storage distributed worldwide.

• Were an English-language team of very skilled and highly motivated entrepreneurs and hackers with diverse academic and professional backgrounds.
• In spring 2018, we graduated from the Techstars Berlin accelerator programme and have access to a worldwide network of expert advisors and investors.

Arweave is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from everybody.