Sr. DevOps Engineer
At Hiro, our focus is on developing tools that facilitate Web3 integration with Bitcoin. Our comprehensive suite of tools enables developers to unleash the full capabilities of Bitcoin by leveraging smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. With Hiro tools, developers can efficiently test and deploy smart contracts, set up nodes and other essential resources for scaling, and more. Build on Bitcoin can be challenging, but Hiro's developer tools aim to simplify the process. Hiro takes pride in being awarded four Built In’s Best Places to Work recognitions, including U.S. Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Places to Work, and New York Best Startups to Work For.
Backed by more than $75 million from influential investors like Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, and Naval Ravikant, Hiro is well-supported.
About The Opportunity
Hiro is in search of a collaborative and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to assist in scaling our infrastructure to support our growing requirements and to develop solutions that empower developers. DevOps engineers at Hiro are a blend of system and software engineers with a dual focus on empowering teams to create, test, deploy, and monitor high-velocity, high-quality services for hundreds of thousands of users (soon to be millions) and on streamlining operations across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Enhance tooling and automation for software and service building, testing, and deployment
- Work closely with engineering teams to launch new features and products
- Advocate for and implement industry best practices to enhance the security and user-friendliness of our production environment
- Identify and troubleshoot issues comprehensively, offering swift and effective solutions
- Debug production problems across various services and stack layers
- Enhance operational standards, tooling, and processes
- Develop solutions to automate and streamline monitoring, incident escalation, improve resiliency, and maximize uptime
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years' experience in an SRE, DevOps, or equivalent role
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams across different time zones
- Sense of ownership, humility, and proactiveness
- Skill in problem-solving and quick decision-making
- Proficiency in Bash scripting and ideally one additional language (such as Python, Go, or NodeJS)
- Competent in container technologies like Docker or Containerd
- Proficient in architecting and managing Kubernetes clusters, and deploying various applications on them
- Experience in deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production services
- Familiarity with service meshes like Istio/Envoy, Linkerd, and API gateways like Kong and Nginx
- Skill in writing infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform or Pulumi
- Experience with logging, tracing, metrics, and monitoring dashboard tools like Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus
- Proficient in managing public cloud infrastructure such as GCP, Azure, and/or AWS
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