Senior Operation Engineer

What you’ll be doing

As an Operations Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Fireblock blockchain infrastructure. You’ll own Fireblocks production Blockchains RPC Nodes infrastructure over AWS, implement and build sustainable, scalable, and secure solutions with goals of improving availability and performance. You’ll build strong partnerships with blockchain foundations, vendors, and customers, working together to address challenges, implement solutions, and ensure the smooth and reliable operation of our systems. You’ll dive deep into blockchain protocols, identify optimization opportunities, resolve issues, and improve infrastructure and monitoring. You’ll help identify root causes for incidents and prevent them from happening again. Solve and orchestrate outages by working with multiple teams. You’ll drive operational excellence and enable the seamless integration of new blockchains that contribute directly to Fireblocks ARR growth. 

This role offers an exciting opportunity to immerse yourself in the blockchain ecosystem, gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies and becoming an expert in this rapidly evolving field. If you're eager to grow your blockchain knowledge while tackling impactful challenges, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements

To thrive in this role, you should bring the following qualifications and experience:

• At least 4+ years of experience as SRE, DevOps, and Infra Backend in a SaaS environment
• At least 4+ years of experience with Coding languages - Python/JavaScript/Bash, or similar
• At least 3+ years of experience with Alerting & Monitoring systems such as DataDog Coralogix / Splunk / New Relic / Prometheus
• At least 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Github Actions, CircleCI or similar
• Experience working with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond
• Cloud systems such as AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Configuration management such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet/ArgoCD
• High Analytical & Troubleshooting skills - ability to solve complex problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• You are curious, self-motivated, easy to work with, responsible and production aware.

Bonus Skills

• Previous experience in the blockchain ecosystem - big advantage

Join us in shaping the future of digital asset security and blockchain innovation at Fireblocks! Apply now and be part of our journey towards a brighter, decentralized world.

For employees hired to work from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range is specific to New York City, and takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are reviewed when making a hiring decision, such as years of experience, skills, and other business needs.

It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case. A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $153,000 to $200,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits. While we believe competitive compensation is a critical aspect of you deciding to join us, we do hope you also spend time considering why our mission and culture are right for you. We are creating something transformational here, and we hope you are as excited about the future as we are.

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.