\nAbout Us\n\nParity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, having built and pioneered some of the most advanced technologies in the blockchain sector. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellowpaper.\n\nParity has built clients for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash and has pioneered a completely new, next-generation blockchain protocol with Polkadot and the framework it’s built with, Substrate. Parity builds the open-source technologies needed to power an unstoppable, decentralised web—known as Web3—and helps developers and organisations implement and build upon the Web3 tech stack.\nPeople in Our Collective Are\n\n\n* Highly motivated to contribute to Parity’s mission and be part of something bigger\n\n* Excited to work on projects that are groundbreaking and complex\n\n* Autonomous workers that self-initiate, but also collaborate well with others\n\n* Taking maximum accountability and having minimum ego at work\n\n* Comfortable with chaos and adapting to the ever-changing Web3 space\n\n* Continuously educating themselves about Parity and the wider ecosystem\n\n\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Parity DevOps team is part of the Parity Infrastructure & Data department, made of more than 20 people. We are remote-first, but can also work from offices in Berlin, Lisbon, and London.\nAbout the Position\n\n\n* \nLead and Innovate: Lead multiple projects across teams, owning significant technical components or complex services. Drive the automation and coding of our infrastructure deployments, designing and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines.\n\n* \nTechnical Excellence: Demonstrate exceptional technical proficiency. Support Parity’s developers in their contributions to Polkadot/Kusama runtimes and the development of our Polkadot node client and the Polkadot-SDK framework, both written in Rust. Ensure stellar code quality and provide thorough code reviews.\n\n* \nMentorship and Coaching: Coach and mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development. Share your expertise through regular forum posts and presentations at conferences, enhancing the technical knowledge within the organization and the broader community.\n\n* \nEcosystem Collaboration: Engage with the technical ecosystem, working closely with internal and external stakeholders. Be at the forefront of new technical developments in the ecosystem, contributing to the Polkadot 2.0 roadmap, including JAM.\n\n* \nOperational Excellence: Contribute to Parity’s blockchain node operations, improving the reliability of the Polkadot network by managing test and benchmark networks in the cloud and on-prem. Enhance our observability initiatives by operating mainnet nodes for the Polkadot and Kusama Relaychain and System parachains, gathering crucial operational data for monitoring and incident response.\n\n* \nInfrastructure Solutions: Conceptualize and build innovative infrastructure solutions aimed at improving the experience of working in Polkadot. Take accountability for the delivery of your OKRs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.\n\n* \nVisibility and Impact: Be well known across the organization for your technical excellence and contributions. Regularly communicate progress and challenges, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational objectives.\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* Familiarity with Linux, including security aspects, networking and virtualization (3 years minimum)\n\n* Experience with containerization including Docker and Kubernetes\n\n* Experience with configuration management (e.g. Ansible) and cloud orchestration (e.g. Terraform)\n\n* Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Rust)\n\n* Knowledge of monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana is a plus\n\n* Understanding of what a blockchain is and how to deploy a blockchain network\n\n* On-call experience with the mindset of site reliability, including incident response and postmortem analysis\n\n* Ability to work autonomously, be proactive, prioritize, communicate, and function in a small (partly-remote) team\n\n\n\nAbout Working for Us\n\n\n* Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)\n\n* “Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours\n\n* Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects\n\n* Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job\n\n* Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)\n\n* Team and company-wide retreats\n\n* Work laptop\n\n* Opportunity to relocate to Germany or Portugal (with visa sponsorship)\n\n\n\n\nThose joining our collective as an employee in Germany, Portugal, and the UK, also enjoy benefits such as healthcare, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year) and local team events.\n\nParity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.\n\nView our Applicant Notice to see how we use your data.\n\nIs this position not quite your match? Browse our other open roles.\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Docker, DevOps, Cloud, Node, Senior, Junior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nChainSafe is a leading blockchain research and development firm specializing in infrastructure solutions for the decentralized web. Alongside its contributions to significant ecosystems such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Filecoin, and more, ChainSafe creates solutions for developers and teams across the web3 space utilizing our expertise in gaming, bridging, NFTs, and decentralized storage. As part of the mission to build innovative products for users and better tooling for developers, ChainSafe embodies an open-source and community-oriented ethos.\n\nTo learn more about ChainSafe, look at our Discord, GitHub, and website.\n\nHere’s what you need to know before reading on:\n\n\n* Our progressive tech stack includes Go, Rust, and TypeScript\n\n* We spearhead ecosystem projects like Lodestar, Web3.js, Forest, and Gossamer\n\n\n* We are global, remote-friendly, and open to contractors\n\n\n\n\nAt ChainSafe, you’ll be part of a team that believes in the community's vital importance and contributes to advancing humanity with open-source and decentralized technology.\nAbout the Role\n\nAs a Blockchain Operator (BlockOps) member with the Lodestar team, you will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions providing direct support to the Lodestar consensus client team and the Ethereum protocol ecosystem as a whole. You’ll improve collaboration and productivity by helping our team of core developers automate infrastructure, workflows and experiments by collaborating with other infrastructure professionals within ChainSafe and the larger collective of developers and node operators in the Ethereum ecosystem.\n\nWe’re seeking an individual excited with helping Ethereum scale to become the most effective, impactful and valuable blockchain for global settlements. This position will work directly with consensus layer clients like Lodestar and execution clients which are critical to the success of Ethereum. This would include developing, using and maintaining innovative tooling/infrastructure to standup ephemeral multi-client devnets, staking node operations, metrics collection and block/client analysis. You will be expected to build custom tooling to solve problems, communicate these solutions to the team and the community as a whole. You’ll be joining a team of international specialists to ensure the success of the client software and the Ethereum protocol ecosystem.\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Orchestrate, experiment and architect blockchain node infrastructure such as multi-client devnets, test limitations with automated tooling such as fuzzers and specification conformance testing\n\n* Learning about the Ethereum protocol, its roadmap, and working with external community contributors to achieve milestones\n\n* Familiarizing and operating Ethereum consensus and execution layer clients in various advanced configurations within public and private testnets\n\n* Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support Lodestar during development and release cycles\n\n* Building and enhancing existing monitoring and logging infrastructure\n\n* Analyze and diagnose block/client metrics, logging and monitoring to improve the Lodestar client software\n\n* Conduct research experiments and propose solutions to continuously improve the resiliency and continuity of Lodestar and our deployed infrastructure\n\n* Develop and implement custom tooling as necessary to solve complex problems\n\n* Support operating existing infrastructure as necessary, including public nodes, staking validators and development testnets\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* At least three years of prior DevOps, Infrastructure, Site Reliability or Cloud Engineer experience\n\n* Strong experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform\n\n* Experience working with Docker containers and using them in production systems\n\n* Languages: Any modern programming language (Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript). You might need to write some code or scripts for custom tooling\n\n* Experience working with some of the major public clouds. e.g. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, Hetzner\n\n* Competent with the “basics” (e.g Linux usage and computer networking)\n\n* Collaborative, communicative, and confident in their abilities to work well with all team members at all seniority and skill levels\n\n* Deployed and managed monitoring and alerting systems based on time-series metrics E.g. Prometheus/InfluxDB, Grafana, Alertmanager, etc.\n\n* Self-motivated individual with enthusiasm for learning and building things with a results-driven attitude ⭐\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n\n\n* Understanding of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes\n\n* Understanding deeper level metric query languages like PromQL\n\n* Software engineering/development background\n\n* Knowledge of blockchain technology, especially Ethereum\n\n* Running Ethereum client software\n\n* Virtualization management platforms like Proxmox or other hypervisor solutions\n\n* Open source contributions\n\n\n\n\nIf you feel like you’re the perfect fit for the role, please apply even if you don’t match all the requirements.\nHiring Steps\n\n\n* Candidates will be invited to a 60-minute Technical interview with an Infrastructure member.\n\n* Lastly, candidates will be invited to a 60-90 minute Technical and Values-based interview with Lodestar team members.\n\n\n\nWhy Join ChainSafe\n\nFounded by developers for developers, ChainSafe is a remote-first company with an international team. We continue to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth, value autonomy and responsibility, have a results-driven environment, and offer flexible work hours.\n\nWe care deeply about our values and look for these attributes in every new team member. In addition, we recognize the benefits of cultivating a diverse team and aspire to embed respect for all people into our culture. We encourage women, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, and members of any other group underrepresented in the blockchain space (or tech in general) to apply.\nHow to Apply\n\nPlease fill out the Greenhouse application form below and ensure that you attach your resume and link your Github/Gitlab profile or any software project you have contributed to (if applicable).\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Docker, Cloud, Node and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide