Senior Software Engineer, NetOps
Protocol Labs
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Posted:
August 28, 2023
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Remote
About the position
We are looking for an engineer to contribute to the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud native and on-premise infrastructure for Protocol Labs and its partners. The role involves supporting the Filecoin/FVM network and driving software improvements in the PL Web3 stack. Responsibilities include owning sprints and epics, maintaining communication with stakeholders, establishing service level objectives, improving collaboration, and providing infrastructure support. The ideal candidate should have mastery of software engineering practices, excellent communication skills, and experience in distributed systems. Bonus points for familiarity with peer-to-peer networking, Ethereum smart contracts, and proficiency in the Go programming language.
Responsibilities
- Own multi-week sprints and quarter-long epics from conception to delivery
- Maintain proactive async communication with stakeholders to provide updates and progress reports
- Establish measurable service level objectives in collaboration with stakeholders
- Establish comprehensive observability over the performance of supported services
- Improve collaboration and remove friction within and around our team
- Write high-quality design proposals and technical documentation
- Offer bespoke infrastructure support where high-priority opportunities arise
- Adopt and apply deep domain knowledge (specifically in Protocol Lab’s Interplanetary Stack) to understand and anticipate how it applies within and around your responsibilities
- Promote a positive, productive, and constructive engineering culture toward adopting best practices, experimentation, and failing quickly toward success
- Support operations and monitoring of core Filecoin Network Infrastructure
- Become familiar with Filecoin implementation (primarily Lotus) and contribute bug fixes and new features
- Push on operational improvements in the software to make running it at scale easier and more approachable for decentralized operations and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Mastery of fundamental software engineering practices: testing, debugging, automating, refactoring, and consideration to future maintenance
- Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
- A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- +5 years experience with the modern programming language
- +5 years experience working in an infrastructure/backend engineering position.
- +3 years experience working in distributed systems
- Bonus: Peer to peer networking and computing
- Bonus: Familiarity with ethereum smart contract
- Proficiency with the Go programming language (Bonus)
- Disciplined application versioning (Bonus)
- Preference toward leaving code better than how it was found (Bonus)
- Thorough documentation to increase the next contributor’s quality including details such as: introduction to development lifecycle, expectations for user experience, usage examples, or maintaining practical test coverage (Bonus)
- Being accountable for operational support based on an on-call rotational model (Bonus)
- Knowledgeable in the Storage domain at the kernel and application layers (Bonus)
- Involvement with Filecoin Storage Providers or Crypto Mining (Bonus)
- Experience working remotely in a distributed team (Bonus)
- Experience with Open Source Software and working out in the open (Bonus)
Benefits
- Base pay ranging from $225,000 to $260,000
- Cryptocurrency and equity opportunities
- Performance rewards in cryptocurrency and equity
- Great benefits package
- Parental and other forms of leave
- Contributions to retirement
- Unlimited time off
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage for U.S.-based employees and their families