We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team to help streamline operations and maintain critical infrastructure. You’ll write custom code to automate operational tasks and support a fleet of nodes for multiple blockchain networks. You’ll also provide guidance and expertise to development teams to ensure their applications follow modern best practices. Your work will directly impact the health and stability of our L1.

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain is the first Universal Blockchain with native access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more, offering seamless UX and unified liquidity to the next billions of users. With its Universal EVM, ZetaChain empowers developers to build Universal Apps that operate natively across any blockchain, creating a fluid crypto ecosystem from a single platform.

• Thriving Ecosystem: 1000 dApps developed between testnet and mainnet, showcasing diverse innovation and utilization.
• Engagement: With over a million community members, ZetaChain fosters a dynamic environment for engagement, and collaboration.
• Live on Mainnet: partnered with all major exchanges.
• Activity: Our network has over 4M unique addresses and growing fast!
• Well Funded: Raised over $27M!

Find out more about our ecosystem.

Find out more about our hiring culture: Dream Team Culture

Why You Want To Work Here

• Impactful Role: Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a leading blockchain protocol.
• Remote Flexibility: Enjoy the freedom and flexibility of a remote work environment, ensuring a work-life balance with quarterly team meet ups to get to know each other in person.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Dive deep into the latest advancements in blockchain technology with ZetaChain’s innovative protocol.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape, ensuring you’re always at the forefront of the industry.
• Commitment to Open Source: We are committed to supporting open source software and use high quality open source tools internally when possible.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate description is a wish list, not a checklist. We don’t expect every applicant to tick every box. If you have a strong alignment with many of the qualifications and a passion for learning, we’d love to hear from you.

• Experience:
  • 2+ year of Software Development
  • 2+ years of Infrastructure experience
  • 2+ years of Linux and Ansible experience
  • 2+ years of Kubernetes experience
  • Must play well with others, success is a team sport and at ZetaChain everyone participates!
  • Previous Startup Experience is important. We move much faster than your typical enterprise environment.
  • Security Mindset: constantly anticipating and strategizing against potential threats and vulnerabilities in any system or process.
• Languages: Go, Ansible, Python, Terraform, Bash
• Tech stack: Grafana, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cosmos SDK
• Platforms: AWS, GCP, Bare Metal
• Location:
  • Remote (USA, Argentina, or EU)
• Job Responsibilities:
  • Write code to streamline operations
  • Build monitoring and dashboards to report on server, infrastructure, and web app health
  • Deploy and maintain blockchain nodes for ZetaChain, Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc
  • Manage infrastructure for web applications
  • Ensure all processes meet our security, performance, and reliability requirements
  • Participate in on-call rotation every month
• Bonus points:
  • Familiar with DevOps, DevSecOps, GitOps methodologies & best practices
  • Understanding of blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos); smart contracts (solidity), p2p networking
  • Experience with Go (Cosmos SDK, go-ethereum, btcsuite, Tendermint Core)

Who Would Be a Good Fit for This Role?

A candidate who is a coder at heart with a diverse set of experiences. They should enjoy streamlining operations and building new services that include comprehensive monitoring.

• A seasoned developer with a solid foundation in software engineering and infrastructure
• A proactive problem-solver with a track record of ensuring system reliability and scalability, now ready to tackle the unique challenges of blockchain infrastructure.
• A creative thinker who is not only skilled in programming but also in building testing and observability tools to streamline development processes.
• Someone with substantial experience in building and maintaining robust, scalable backend systems.

Overview

• Our tech stack
  • Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
  • Protocol: Go (Cosmos SDK, go-ethereum, btcsuite, Tendermint Core)
  • Smart contracts: Solidity, Rust, Hardhat
  • Frontend: Typescript, Next.js, Redux toolkit, Ethers.js, tRPC, GraphQL
  • Others: Yarn3 monorepo, Vercel, GitHub actions
• Location
  • Remote
• What you’ll do
  • Get paid to write open-source software (probably what you always wanted)
  • Work with Typescript and Solidity
  • Work on new products that bring our omnichain technology to end-users
  • Work on data-heavy, high-traffic (millions of unique users during the last month) backends

Your skills and experience

• Base experience
  • +3 years working as a software engineer
  • Full-stack engineering experience with focus on the backend and smart contracts
  • Experience working on blockchain products
• Bonuses
  • A balanced experience between working at startups and big tech companies
  • Experience building products from scratch

Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer (Developer Experience)

Location: Remote, or offices in NY/SF

Company: ZetaChain

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain aims to be the only blockchain you’ll ever need. It is a layer 1 blockchain and developer platform that connects any L1 and L2, from Ethereum to Bitcoin and beyond. Access all of crypto in one place, as a developer or user.

ZetaChain prides itself on its vibrant and active community, a testament to our growing impact and relevance in the blockchain space:

• Thriving Ecosystem: Over 150+ dApps developed, showcasing diverse innovation and utilization.
• Engagement: With over 1M+ followers on Twitter and an equally active Discord community of 1.2M+ members, ZetaChain fosters a dynamic environment for engagement and collaboration.
• Activity: Our mainnet has seen over 8K+ smart contracts deployed and processed over 137M+ transactions among 3.5M unique wallet addresses

Find out more about our ecosystem.

Find out more about our hiring culture: Dream Team Culture.

About the Role

ZetaChain is seeking a software engineer with experience in TypeScript and smart contract development to join our team. You will be instrumental in developing open-source tools and libraries that enhance the developer experience on the ZetaChain platform, and you’ll be working directly with exciting components of our tech stack.

Overview

• Our tech stack
  • Protocol: Go (Cosmos SDK, Comet BFT, Ethermint)
  • Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Vercel
  • Smart contracts: Solidity (EVM), Rust (Solana), FunC (TON)
  • Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Ethers.js, GraphQL, protobuf
• What you’ll do
  • Add new features to the Toolkit, our library of TypeScript functions that interact with ZetaChain
  • Improve Localnet, ZetaChain’s local development environment, to ensure seamless developer experiences
  • Maintain and expand UniversalKit, our component library
  • Extend and enhance example contracts with new features and support for additional connected chains
  • Participate in dev rel initiatives to foster community growth and engagement with the ZetaChain ecosystem
  • Get paid to write open-source software and public docs (probably what you always wanted)
  • Work on providing the best developer experience for people building on top of ZetaChain
  • Work on products that bring our core interoperability blockchain technology to end-users

Your skills and experience

• Base experience
  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in TypeScript
  • Experience in at least one smart contract language. Solidity is important, but we also work with Rust, FunC, and other languages in the future.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript development tools and libraries, including Next.js, Ethers.js, and GraphQL
  • Experience with smart contract development tooling, like Hardhat
• Bonuses
  • A balanced experience between working at startups and big tech companies
  • Experience with EVM or Cosmos blockchains
  • A track record of contributing to or managing open-source projects

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

Ads is a growing engineering team at Whatnot dedicated to building systems & features to help Sellers grow their business. As a software engineer on the ads team, the most important qualities you'll need are making sound product decisions, navigating new domains seamlessly, taking extreme ownership, and shipping high-quality products fast. We always prioritize the highest-impact features and ship them quickly. The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and many more freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to put customers first, make good trade-offs, and deliver impact is essential to us.

In this role, you will…

• Build ads products by working across the full ads stack including bidding & targeting, ranking/auction, serving, campaign management, and seller tooling
• Build highly scalable ads system that handles all aspects of running an online advertising system and helps sellers differentiate themselves on Whatnot
• Understand our buyer and seller experiences and become an expert in helping them effectively scale their business through ads & monetization products

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Software Engineer, you should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with some industry experience in one of the following areas: ads serving, quality, pricing, discovery, ranking, recommendations, and/or search engines. You should also have:

• Are capable of building scalable systems (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript)
• Have product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
• Have built systems that scale at a high-growth company before, and can do it again with minimal guidance
• Can ship products and features lightning-fast without sacrificing quality
• Are an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do
• Are comfortable working across the stack (backend and frontend)
• Have the ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
• Have a proven track record of delivering features

💰Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $185,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + stock options

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity in the form of stock options.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• $1,000 home office setup allowance
• $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• $450 monthly allowance on food
• $500 monthly allowance for wellness
• $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
• $20,000 lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

Apply Now:

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to become foundational members of our Core Machine Learning team. You will help drive the development of Whatnot’s machine learning operations and work with machine learning engineers across the company to build scalable design patterns that can be repeatedly used to achieve key business goals. Our ideal candidate has experience in spinning up ML platforms e.g. real-time model serving, approximate nearest neighbor retrieval, high-concurrency and low-latency scaling, feature stores, and model lifecycle monitoring. They are also willing and able to flex into an applied research role to develop models that leverage their own components.

What you'll do:

• Drive the development of the machine learning platform roadmap, staying abreast of emerging business needs that the machine learning platform can help address.
• Enhance our machine learning infrastructure--increase reliability, reduce latency, and continually improve the developer experience.
• Develop scalable machine learning design patterns that make it easy for machine learning scientists and engineers to safely deploy models to production.
• Improve model training, management, and monitoring
• Take a leading role in deploying ML models on business critical surfaces & flows.
• Define and advance our technical approach to scalable machine learning.
• Flex outside your comfort zone to help take on new challenges that emerge

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Software Engineer, Machine Learning you should have 5+ years of experience, plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience setting up machine learning platforms–model serving, features stores, model registries, training pipelines, etc.
• 1+ years of professional experience developing software in Python
• Software engineering experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams.
• Experience with operational, search, and key-value databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark.
• Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work.
• Exceptional documentation and communication skills.
• Experience in applied statistical and machine learning fields e.g. Recommendations, Search, Fraud & Anomaly Detection, Experimentation and Causal Analysis preferred.

💰Compensation

For US-based applicants: $205,000 - $275,000/year + benefits + stock options

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity in the form of stock options.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
  • $1,000 home office setup allowance
  • $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits
  • $450 monthly allowance on food
  • $500 monthly allowance for wellness
  • $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
  • $20,000 lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

Apply Now: