About us
At Flashbots, we're building the foundations of the future Internet and financial system. As an R&D organization, we focus on MEV through our dual engines of open research and breakthrough product development – like mev-geth, Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet.Our vibe is accelerationist, exceptional, kind, and independent. We are explorers, innovators, builders, and thinkers. We thrive on action, curiosity, and impact - driving the future in an iterative way while keeping an eye towards the long term version we want to see in the world.
About the role:
Flashbots is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to augment our small team. You will collaborate closely with our teams of scientists and engineers to support products like SUAVE, Flashblocks, and Rollup-Boost.Due to working with confidential data, you may be subject to trading restriction policies.
What You’ll Do:
- 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
Who You Are:
- Genuine desire to understand the blockchain and 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Contributions to open source projects
- Development of distributed systems
- Experience with:
- Golang and Rust
- Public clouds and bare-metal hosting providers
Details that matter
- Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
- Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
- Attractive health coverage package for US employees
- $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
- Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
- Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant
- Remote working - work from anywhere in the world
- Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events
At Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.
