Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Looking for a talented individual to join a leading blockchain development team at Ava Labs. The team focuses on deploying cutting-edge solutions for Web3, driven by innovations on Avalanche. Founded by Cornell computer scientists in collaboration with experienced Wall Street professionals and Web3 pioneers, Ava Labs aims to redefine the way individuals construct permissionless networks. The company strives to revolutionize the process of creating value through Web3 by enabling global asset digitization on an open and programmable blockchain platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable and secure infrastructure solutions for various platforms.
- Develop and automate continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, code approval processes, and release management procedures.
- Expand system architecture and operating system support beyond current standards.
- Establish quality standards and engineering targets for build releases.
- Create enterprise-wide monitoring and alerting frameworks.
- Automate cloud technology usage through tools like Terraform.
- Collaborate with protocol development teams to integrate their software into the continuous integration pipeline.
- Provide strategic guidance on infrastructure reliability, scalability, and security practices.
- Drive initiatives to enhance developer productivity, software quality, and support for software deployment across different cloud platforms and consumer operating systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering roles.
- Demonstrated success in scaling rapidly growing startup environments.
- Proficiency in AWS cloud networking and orchestration (EKS, ECS, VPC, S3, ELB).
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, and/or Ansible.
- Strong background in Kubernetes, Docker, or RKT containerization.
- Knowledge of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis CI, or Circle CI.
- Familiarity with automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience working with Linux-based infrastructures (preferably Ubuntu).
- Skills in scripting languages and script creation (preference for GoLang).
- Understanding of decentralized architecture design patterns and distributed systems.
Salary Range: $142,400 to $178,000
(Note: Final compensation may vary based on experience and location)
Why Ava Labs?
Join a global team of experts from diverse fields at Ava Labs, where passion for Web3 innovation drives our mission to redefine finance and decentralized applications. Supported by top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, alongside angel investors Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant, Ava Labs offers the opportunity to pioneer technology with broad implications for finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, and other sectors.
At Ava Labs, we are dedicated to building a diverse workforce and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without discrimination based on various protected characteristics.