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Senior DevOps Engineer

About Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a software development company building and developing a network of aggregated blockchains via the AggLayer, secured by Ethereum. As public infrastructure, the AggLayer will bring together user bases and liquidity for any connected chain, and leverage Ethereum as a settlement layer. Polygon Labs has also contributed to the core development of several widely-adopted scaling protocols and tools for launching blockchains, including Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Miden, which is in development as well as Polygon CDK.

*This role will require you to be on-call one week, every two months*

Your Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Polygon Labs, your role will cover development and operations; deploying, debugging, tuning and maintaining large-scale Web deployments, high-performance, low-latency distributed applications, and container-based applications and microservices.

You’ll be ready to apply the best practices for monitoring and observability, security and infrastructure automation, to improve and expand the multi-cloud platform used by deployments.

Your Responsibilities

Ensuring deployments have more than 99% availability at all times
Troubleshoot issues that arise during testing and production to ensure a seamless launch
Automate operational processes as needed in compliance with our security standards
Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices
Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes using CI/CD tools, and source control such as GIT
Offer technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems
Provide incident response and support for our production systems
Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve

What You'll Need

Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration
Experience managing databases such as PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and using managed services like RDS
Knowledge of coding languages such as Javascript, Python, Go, Rust and Bash
Experience with configuration management tools like Terraform and Ansible
Experience working with different Linux distributions: Ubuntu, Centos
Knowledge of other Linux fundamentals
Experience working with containers, preferably Docker, and container orchestration tools like Swarm and Kubernetes
Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and Datadog
Experience with CI/CD tools and Github Actions for automation and configuration
Knowledge of AWS cloud and its services like EC2, VPC, S3, SNS, Load balancers, Auto scaling, Route53, Code Pipeline, Code deploy, Cloud front and IAM
Knowledge of GCP cloud and its services like GKE, GCE, load balancing and networking

Preferred Qualifications

Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience in software development and infrastructure development
Ability to mentor junior engineers
Experience working in blockchain or web3

Polygon Labs Perks

The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full time employees:

Remote first global workforce
Industry leading Medical, Dental and Vision health insurance*
Company matching 401k with 3% match*
$1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (life-time max)
$200 Annual Book Allowance Program
$75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
Flexible Time Off
1 company wide wellness Friday day off per quarter
Company issued laptop
Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

*In certain countries medical, dental and vision is fully covered for employees & their dependents. This is country and plan specific.

*401k is for United States employees only

Polygon Labs is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Polygon Labs is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration and equal opportunity. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

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