Senior DevOps Engineer, Flashbots
+Equity
Ethereum research and development firm
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Ethereum research and development firm
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To mitigate the negative externalities of current Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) extraction techniques and to avoid the existential risks MEV could cause to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum.
Role
Who you are
- Familiar with blockchain infrastructure and the MEV problem space
- Production experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Deep understanding of engineering principles and best practices
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, async, and remote environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Disposed to action, finding out, and showing; curiosity to get to the root of the problems
- Kind, independently motivated, accountable, and reliable
- By default leave things better than you found them
Desirable
- Contributions to open source projects
- Development of distributed systems
- Experience with:
- Golang and Rust
- Public clouds and bare-metal hosting providers
- Ethereum and her many layers
- Clickhouse and Postgres
What the job involves
- Flashbots is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to augment our small team
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will collaborate closely with our teams of scientists and engineers to support critical products like Pareto Builder, Protect RPC, and SUAVE
- Due to working with confidential data, you may be subject to trading restriction policies
- Common DevOps tasks
- Administrate Kubernetes clusters and deployments, servers, automation, and observability always in IaC
- Partner with Engineers and Product Owners to support their work
- Create automation and tooling
- Unique DevOps tasks
- Collaborate closely with internal and external teams to develop at the cutting edge of TEE systems
- Contribute to and operate foundational infrastructure in blockchains and their rollups
Our take
Flashbots is a research and development organization that is mitigating against the miner-extractable value (MEV) problem, striving for a transparent and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction to reinforce the Ethereum blockchain ideals.
Flashbots, whilst connecting searchers and mining pools together, stands out for not using private contracts and arrangements. Instead, it is an open participation system where any searcher or mining pool can join. This is considered to be more beneficial to the network, rather than a few private entities dominating, because it still allows for competition.
The company is seeing active progression, having raised $60 million for its Suave, a new vision for a kind of blockchain that could transform the process by which chain-operators earn value across different networks. With this, the company is becoming a genuinely exciting disrupter to an ever-changing industry. However, mid-2023 has seen major resignations in Flashbots leadership team following its substantial funding, down to the company's compliance with US Treasury sanctions concerning censorship and tighter regulations in the Ethereum industry. These changes were followed by a strategic hiring push but nevertheless, the future direction of the company remains a considerable unknown.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- 🌍 Fully remote with flexible hours in a flat hierarchy
- 🧠 Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
- 💸 Competitive salary + significantly above market rate equity package
- ✈️ Regular team on-sites to locations like Morocco, Amsterdam and Costa Rica
- 🌴Unlimited PTO with no approval needed on 3 days or less vacations
- 🍏 Attractive health cover package for US employee 🇺🇸
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Leadership
Stephane Gosselin
(Co-Founder)Also General Manager and Board Member at Flashbots
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