About Us

LinkPool is a leading validator, oracle provider, infrastructure services and ecosystem developer within the Chainlink ecosystem and wider Web3 industry.

Since 2017, LinkPool has been pioneering modern infrastructure tooling to set precedent and help build an industry that shapes how agreements are formed and settled across all industries. With LinkPool being one of the largest Chainlink Node Operators since its launch in 2019, it is in a unique position to work with and operate across most networks, projects and teams to build its knowledge and help drive the ecosystem forward.

LinkPool is a globally distributed team, and all roles are fully remote.

The Role:

As a Site Reliability Engineer at LinkPool, you’ll be joining our small and driven team to have a core role in building, managing and supporting all aspects of our infrastructure. You’ll work closely with every member of our engineering and business teams to manage the deployment and reliability of new deployments for new networks, be “client facing” by liasoning with projects that we’re working with and have strong ownership of the entire stack to drive change that improves how we think about infrastructure.

You’ll work across our full stack of infrastructure, from creating and maintaining Chainlink nodes, blockchain full nodes, validators, monitoring stack and our Kubernetes cluster setup. As well as this, you will support our existing product engineering teams that work on first-of-their-kind liquid staking products (stake.link) and upcoming iterations of those products rolling out new chains and services.

LinkPool’s infrastructure is fully containerised and fully collocated with wholly owned hardware that we solely manage. This is a unique opportunity to use cutting edge tooling on infrastructure wholly owned without the burden of dealing with cloud pricing.

Requirements

Candidate MUST be based in an eastern hemisphere time zone. GMT+6 or greater.

• 3+ years of professional experience as SRE/DevOps
• Expert: Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus
• Familiar: Loki, Thanos
• Desire and ability to rapidly learn new technologies
• Highly motivated with a self-governing work ethic
• Comfortable closely collaborating with engineers in and out of your team

Desirables

• Experience working with Blockchain Full Nodes, in particular Ethereum based clients (Execution and Beacon Chain), Cosmos SDK clients, OP stack and Solana.
• Understanding of Ethereum, Solidity, and Chainlink at a technical level
• Familiarity with the current DeFi landscape

Benefits

• Competitive compensation offered in Fiat and/or Tokens
• Remote first working environment
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy
• Work on a rapidly growing team with opportunities for advancement and the ability to plan for a long term role
• The products and services you help build will have significant visibility across multiple blockchain networks
• Work closely with other industry-leading teams on high impact projects

If you’re looking for a role where you’re working with an experienced team of A+ players without much red tape and where you can take clear ownership while using the latest tools and technologies, then this role is for you.

As a Blockchain Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the Axelar Network. You will take ownership of the network and its functions and ensure smooth operations. You will work with BD and Product teams to prioritize various initiatives around the network and contribute to tooling for the network.

Your responsibilities

• Manage releases and rollout upgrades to the network in collaboration with our validators.
• Develop and iterate on tooling around network deployment, monitoring, security and other network ops related functions.
• Drive governance of the network including the delegation program.
• Strengthen our security posture and refining protocols for offline signing.
• Improve the infrastructure and deployment to improve team’s agility and velocity.
• Improve and iterate on internal tooling that our protocol engineers use to develop new features.

Your Profile

• Good understanding of cryptography.
• Scripting and tooling experience preferably in Javascript/Golang.
• Experience managing a blockchain network and coordinating upgrades.
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools.
• Security first coding and deployment mindset.
• Understanding of blockchains / DeFi as a user.
• Experience with the cosmos sdk and cosmos based networks.
• Familiarity with the IBC protocol.
• Experience operating validators or nodes for various blockchains.
• Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to lead and share knowledge to reach solutions as well as the keenness to learn.
• You enjoy being hands on, being a self starter that thrives well in ambiguity.
• A problem solver at heart that can envision successful outcomes.

Why us?

• Autonomous, distributed environment with the opportunity to work collaboratively in a diverse team worldwide.
• The scope to contribute to high-impact work and make a difference in a decentralized protocol.
• The chance to challenge yourself while learning heaps of stuff in the process.
• Unlimited time off throughout the year to rest and recharge.
• Competitive compensation with stock options, experiencing growth from the initial phase.

About us

Interop Labs builds interoperability technology.

Interoperability between blockchains is crucial technology infrastructure for the growth of Web3 and the advancement of internet technology as a whole. Interop Labs is the initial developer of Axelar Network - the programmable Web3 interoperability platform, scaling the next generation of internet applications to billions of users. Axelar network’s key attributes are programmability, security and scalability.