Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Staking

Permanent employee, Full-time · Porto, Berlin, (Remote) Germany, (Remote) Portugal

Your mission

We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our **Platform Engineering division** focused on providing blockchain infrastructure to support the consensus mechanism and other blockchain related topics. In this role, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our blockchain validator nodes and additional blockchain components running across both cloud and on-prem environments. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, ensuring high availability, monitoring, and performance tuning for mission-critical blockchain infrastructure.

In this role, you will:

Provision and manage validator nodes on AWS, OpenStack, and on-prem infrastructure
Build and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems to ensure validator nodes achieve maximum uptime and performance
Implement automation for infrastructure management, deployment, and scaling using Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Kubernetes
Set up and maintain Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for deployment automation, testing, security
Develop and implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to enable deeper insight to the deployed solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
Optimize validator performance, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost-efficiency across cloud and physical environments
Establish and enforce security best practices, including encryption, access controls, etc.
Create disaster recovery and backup plans to safeguard validator data and operations
Collaborate with development and security teams to improve overall infrastructure and respond rapidly to incidents
Conduct post-incident reviews to improve system reliability and decrease downtime
Maintain detailed documentation for all processes, configurations, and infrastructure designs
Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical issues in real-time
Assist in regulatory compliance and security audits, ensuring infrastructure meets industry standards

What you need to be successful:

Expertise in managing blockchain infrastructure, with a focus on the consensus mechanism and blockchain node operations
Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, OpenStack) and services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM
Strong grasp of networking concepts and security protocols, particularly for distributed systems
Expertise in Docker and securing containerized environments
Experience with Kubernetes and Helm for container orchestration and managing high availability in multi-node environments
Proficient with **CI/CD pipelines**, ideally Gitlab, for automated deployment and testing
Scripting proficiency (e.g., Bash, Python) and experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
In-depth understanding of monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack
Knowledge of cryptographic security, including encryption, access control, and other compliance-related measures
Strong problem-solving abilities, with a focus on diagnosing and resolving infrastructure issues in real-time
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working across development, security, and operations teams

What’s in it for you:

Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe's leading cryptocurrency management platforms
25 vacation days per year, with an additional day for each year of service - up to 30 days
Access to cutting-edge technologies, high levels of autonomy, and international working environment
Flexible working hours, hybrid work setup from both our Berlin and Porto offices
Fitness (Urban Sports Club) and mental health (Likeminded) memberships
Hot/cold drinks and snacks in the office, and All Hands meetings once a month with pizza

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About us

Finoa is a regulated crypto asset platform for institutional investors co-founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing. The company came to life through the shared aspiration to make institutional interactions with crypto assets simple and secure, and is backed by prominent investors, including Balderton Capital, Coparion, Maven11, Signature Ventures, and Venture Stars.

Finoa has since then grown into a truly international company, powered by a diverse team and serving high-profile clients from around the world. Reference clients include renowned venture capital firms, crypto hedge funds, corporates, Web3 companies, and high-net-worth individuals.

If you want to join one of Europe’s most exciting crypto start-ups, be part of the next wave of innovation disrupting finance, and grow together with us, then this is your chance to apply.

Finoa is an equal opportunity employer devoted to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

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