DevOps Engineer - Obscura
Join the innovation forefront at Kryha as a DevOps Engineer, contributing to the evolution of Obscura — The privacy-first development platform for developing, deploying, and maintaining private decentralized applications.
About Kryha:
Kryha aims to accelerate the transition to trusted, accessible, and private decentralized technology by making programmable privacy accessible to everyday use. Currently, Kryha devotes all of its time to the growth and success of Obscura Network.
About Obscura:
Obscura Network is a peer-to-peer marketplace for confidential data services. It connects application developers and data service providers to streamline the development of private decentralized applications. As a first step, Obscura offers a platform that provides RPCs and oracles on leading privacy-first blockchains such as Aleo, Aztec, Dusk, and Polygon Miden. In this light, developers leverage Obscura's specialized infrastructure to efficiently develop, deploy, and maintain applications prioritizing user privacy.
Job Overview:
As a DevOps Engineer at Kryha, you play a vital role in advancing the Obscura platform. Your focus will be optimising and maintaining the infrastructure supporting privacy-oriented applications on leading privacy-focused blockchains. You are responsible for architecting and creating solutions that ensure our live systems are highly available, optimized, and stable for our customers. You'll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment, ensuring the seamless integration of backend and frontend components.
Responsibilities:
Dual focus on product reliability and developer productivity.
Improve important infrastructure and systems from an operational standpoint (i.e. deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.)
Optimize and manage RPC endpoints, APIs, and SDKs, enhancing the efficiency of app development on privacy-focused blockchains.
Work closely with backend and frontend developers to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications.
Participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain coding standards and quality.
Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of Obscura applications and nodes.
Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring
Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on reliability
Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continually improve the Obscura platform.
Our Culture:
We're a dynamic and lively team at Kryha, fostering a culture that balances bold work with downtime. We offer a beautiful office, flexible work options, Friday drinks, inspiration sessions, team lunches, sports activities, and annual team getaways.
What’s in it for you:
Work on cutting-edge Web3 projects contributing to a more joyful, equal, and sustainable world.
Flexible work options, encouraging a minimum of two days at the office.
Numerous opportunities for career growth and development within Kryha.
Time and freedom to shape your role and personal development, growing your skills and working towards your goals.
Have fun working with a diverse and motivated team where everyone is encouraged to be themselves
Connect with Us:
Explore more about our work on our website, follow us on X and join our Discord.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on blockchain or decentralized technologies is a bonus
Experience working with AWS and cloud infrastructure
Proficient with container scheduling services such as Docker and Kubernetes (including Helm)
Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus, Stackdriver, and DataDog
Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
Experience with networking and configuring/managing VPC networks
An understanding of security best practices
(Preferred) Experience with streaming infrastructure (Kafka, etc)
Solid understanding of web applications and microservice architecture
Experience working with privacy-focused blockchains and a strong understanding of blockchain technologies.
Familiarity with RPC protocols, API development, and SDK integration.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
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Split your time between home and office every week. Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year.
Join our delicious daily lunches for a small contribution. The rest is covered by us.
We’ll provide you with an NS/Business card. You also have the possibility to subscribe to Swapfiets through us.
On top of the 25 holiday days, you’ll receive 1 ”Each To Their Own” day. It's up to you to decide when to take this day off.
Every year Kryha organizes special staff events, parties, and an annual company trip.
Our hiring team will carefully evaluate each application, and if you’re selected our talent acquisition team will contact you to set up an introduction call and understand your goals and expectations.
If you’re applying for a developer role, you will be asked to perform a code test so we can assess your skills.
Your first interview with us will be focused on your skills and experience. Our talent acquisition team will let you know how to prepare yourself.
Are we a good fit? In this interview, we’ll evaluate if we’re a cultural match. Let’s get to know each other a bit better and spare all of our remaining questions.
At this last stage, we will get into the specifics of your employment. We’ll make you an offer and discuss all practical details such as benefits and start date.
We are open to your introductions if you think you can make "a match made in heaven". But only under the following conditions:
We require the first name and surname of the applicant
We require their salary expectations
We require a summary of your business terms, shared prior to the intro
Introductions need to be submitted to jobs@kryha.io
Without this information, your introductions will be viewed as direct applications.
