Senior DevOps Engineer, New Networks

Posted 25 Days Ago
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United Kingdom
Senior level
Blockchain • Web3
The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will plan and implement projects for scaling blockchain operations, manage infrastructure across global servers, automate deployment processes, and mentor team members. Responsibilities include ensuring system stability and security while optimizing workflows and troubleshooting complex systems.
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You could work anywhere. Why Figment?

Figment powers the future of Web3 through industry-leading blockchain infrastructure. As the leading provider of staking solutions, we help 500+ institutional clients optimize their crypto rewards, including top exchanges, asset managers, wallets, foundations, custodians, and major token holders. Our clients trust Figment for a comprehensive suite of services, including reward optimization, cutting-edge API development, detailed rewards reporting, seamless partner integrations, governance support, and slashing protection.

Backed by a team of passionate and intelligent Figmates, with a 100% remote-first global presence across 12 countries, our company is on a mission to accelerate the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Web3 ecosystem. We’re building the infrastructure that will power the decentralized future.

As a fast-growing tech company, we’re looking for builders and innovators — people who thrive in the face of uncertainty and are motivated to make an impact. We are also looking for true teammates - people who are genuine, humble, and driven to level up together. If you're excited to shape the future, contribute to an energetic company culture, and work at the cutting edge of blockchain technology, we want you to join our team and help us lead the charge!

About the opportunity

We run 70+ blockchains here at Figment. Come help us onboard more!

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale out our operations by planning and implementing projects to manage fleets of blockchain servers. This role presents unique opportunities to be involved in building out tooling where none exists in the industry. You will build production systems that need to handle newer (sometimes alpha quality) blockchain software. You’ll need to consider all aspects of security, monitoring, maintainability, and stability.

How you will make an impact

  • Lead the planning, testing, implementation, and management of projects to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments across a variety of use cases
  • Identify & implement solutions for common areas where automation can significantly increase our ability to manage all our infrastructure
  • Identify areas of systemic risk & evaluate, propose, and implement solutions
  • Manage and monitor cloud and physical servers across multiple global hosting services and data centres
  • Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes
  • Perform Linux server administration, hardening, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning
  • Debug complex distributed blockchains to help run them smoothly
  • Identify tasks and processes that get stuck or move slowly and support the team in pushing them through
  • Explain broad initiatives and vision to Engineering Leadership and Product
  • Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and act as a mentor to others on the team

Who you are

  • In-depth experience using Ansible (and similar tools) in environments with over 500 servers:
    • Designing complex static and dynamic inventories, variable structures, and playbooks
    • Writing custom Ansible roles from scratch, with advanced features such as Jinja2 templating, complex logic flows, dynamic roles/tasks, and handlers
    • Ensuring idempotency & reusability, and following applicable best practices
  • In-depth experience supporting Linux servers in large, highly secure, and highly available 24/7 environments
  • Demonstrated experience working with blockchain nodes or very strong knowledge of the blockchain domain
  • Deep troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple clusters of systems - to quickly identify server, network, and application issues; and methodical approach to implementing, testing, and measuring changes to remediate issues
  • Knowledge of common OS and application level settings to optimize system performance
  • Experience with common system administration scripting languages such as Bash and Python
  • In-depth experience creating well organized modules with Terraform to ensure reusable cloud provisioning automation
  • Deep understanding of networking and security best practices

Even better if you have

  • Ansible role testing with Molecule (or similar tools) and Ansible module development experience
  • Knowledge of, or experience with, Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake decentralized consensus mechanisms used in blockchains
  • Experience running applications on Kubernetes
  • Experience creating CI/CD pipelines from scratch to automate infrastructure provisioning and deploy applications (GitHub Actions or similar tools)
  • Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools

Why you might be excited about us

  • At Figment, we offer an exciting range of competitive benefits designed to support and empower every member of our team. These will be discussed with you during the interview process.
  • We are a team of under 200 members, which allows for an impactful contribution from day one.
  • We place a strong focus on personal career development to shape a role that fits your goals and interests. Your satisfaction and well-being matter to us, and we’re here to support your ongoing growth.
  • Our culture is one of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment.
  • Our team members themselves recommend working at Figment - with an eNPS score of 54 (which is ranked as ‘great’!).
  • We are also extremely proud of ranking as one of the top Web3 employers by Talent Titans.

Compensation

One of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for. Compensation for this role will be disclosed during the interview process.

Interview process

At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process.

  • During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company.
  • As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit.
  • We aim for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect.

See here for Figment's Privacy Policy and California Employee Privacy Policy.

At Figment, we have a thorough hiring process to verify the identity of all job candidates. This includes checking documents, conducting in-person interviews, biometric authentication and completing background checks. Candidates must pass all these steps to be considered for a job with Figment. Anyone who provides false information or tries to skip these steps will be disqualified from the hiring process immediately.

To learn more about Figment, our team, and the amazing work we are doing, visit our website. Are you ready to join us?

Top Skills

Ansible
Linux
The Company
Toronto, , Ontario
206 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Figment: Building Web 3

Figment’s purpose is to build a better Internet by increasing usage of the next generation of Proof of Stake blockchains.

These efficient blockchains give people greater control of their data, more privacy, and increase financial inclusion. By eliminating intermediaries they also limit the power of centralized data monopolies, rent seeking financial institutions and anti-social algorithms.

We bring our mission to reality by helping investors stake their tokens; earn yield and participate in securing the blockchain. Our Hubble and Prime applications as well as our governance expertise allow token holders to analyze, monitor and make informed decisions. We build Web 3 developer communities via our Learn education program and then make it simple for these developers to launch applications and manage smart contracts via our DataHub platform. And finally by building and operating The Graph based indexers we enable the efficient search and querying of blockchain data.

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