Remote Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer (Docker, Ansible, Terraform)

Overview

The primary project of Heliax is the Anoma protocol (implemented in Rust). Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. In addition to Anoma, Heliax works on open-source projects which are part of the Anoma ecosystem, including but not limited to research in cryptographic libraries such as the MASP or Ferveo (written in Rust), and tools for high assurance validity predicates and arbitrary zero-knowledge circuits (Juvix, written in Haskell).

Heliax is a remote-first team, currently composed of cross-disciplinary members located around the world. All of our work is open-source. Our work culture is characterized by open-allocation, where team members have a high degree of freedom and autonomy in choosing when to work, what to work on, and whom to work with.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an engineer interested in distributed ledger technology to support the public Anoma testnets and help community members by writing guides and tutorials. As a blockchain infrastructure engineer, you will work with us in evaluating, deploying, monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading the Anoma testnets. Furthermore you will be responsible for ensuring that external users can easily deploy our software.

• Build deployment pipelines for the Anoma testnets
• Build, improve, maintain, and upgrade our validator software and hardware infrastructure
• Monitor and maintain testnets (and eventually the mainnet) for any performance issues or bottlenecks, unusual behavior and unexpected outages.
• Monitor network traffic and configure physical & virtual minimal-permission access control for fault isolation
• Automate and scale infrastructure configuration as networks grow. 

Qualifications

• Experience with administrating Linux systems and with configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, Docker)
• Experience with cloud platform services and tooling (GCP, AWS)
• Experience with metrics collection and monitoring
• Working understanding of TCP/IP network stack
• Online availability for unforeseen remotely-fixable issues
• Self-motivated & self-organized
• Strong communication skills.

Bonus Qualifications

• Programming experience in Rust or other low level and systems programming languages
• Prior experience and interest in blockchain technology
• Experience in building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Experience in deploying and scaling high-performance database software
• Interest in and experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
• Experience in supporting a wide range of external users

Misc

• Remote, preferred located in Central Europe (e.g. Berlin, Germany). 
• Ideally someone who enjoys travels, nature, and hiking 🏔️.