About Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates, and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet ?" humanity's most important technology ?" as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (crypto, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

Slingshot & Discover Programs

These programs focus on:

Expediting the onboarding of useful datasets onto the Filecoin network to power all sorts of different use cases
Trail-blaze, generate learnings and byproducts that can be used by others in their path to onboard large swaths of data

You can learn more about the existing programs at:

https://slingshot.filecoin.io. A community competition for storage clients and developers that rewards the storage of real, valuable, and usable data on the Filecoin network
https://evergreen.filecoin.io. A renewal program to create a self-healing record of useful datasets
https://slingshot.filecoin.io/explore. The Slingshot Dataset Explorer to identify and locate datasets on the Filecoin network, onboarded through the Slingshot program
https://store.filecoin-discover.com. An acceleration program to store humanity's important data on Filecoin

As an Infrastructure Engineer Protocol Labs, you will...

Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure in a mix of cloud-based and traditional environments to power large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant services while ensuring the highest security standards.
Work alongside a cross-functional team including software design & development, product management, and ecosystem engineers. Provide technical leadership, support, and best-practices to stakeholders across the PL Network (inside/outside the org).
Support launch of new products & services by participating in system design, building and deploying software-defined infrastructure, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
Incorporate monitoring, alerting, and observability to support services that allow us to maintain the highest standards of security, reliability and uptime, and assess health, evolution and make adjustments to program designs.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and developer velocity.

You may be a fit for this role if you have...

Experience deploying production-grade infrastructure in an automated, reliable, and portable manner using Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI, or similar.
Comfortable with managing cloud infrastructure, and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
Experience with contemporary monitoring & metrics tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, etc.
Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, etc.
Place high value in documentation, and sharing of knowledge through effective written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Bonus points

Experience working remotely in a distributed team.
Experience with Open Source Software.
Familiarity with programming languages such as Golang and the Docker ecosystem.
Experience with aggregated logging tools such as Filebeat, Logstash, Elasticsearch.
Experience iterating and driving infrastructure projects with initiative and autonomy.
Have architected microservices based applications

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What's it like to work at Protocol Labs?

Protocol Labs' mission is to improve humanity's most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

If you're passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you.

GDPR for Job Applicants and Candidates

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Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Protocol Labs to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Protocol Labs' behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards.

Your personal data will be retained by Protocol Labs as long as Protocol Labs determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment or to assist in the hiring process. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.

Summary
Company name: Protocol Labs
Remote job title: Infra Engineer, Data Programs Slingshot
Job tags: CI/CD, Terraform, influxdb