Senior Backend Engineer

🏄 About Safe and the team**

Safe is the most trusted decentralized custody protocol and Safe the flagship wallet for the ecosystem on Ethereum and the EVM. Our team is on a mission to unlock digital ownership for the world. By building robust and accessible tools, we aim to fix some of web3’s biggest challenges. For more information about Safe, check out our website.

You’ll be joining a growing team that currently includes 50+ people overall. This role is based in Berlin (🇩🇪), but we also have awesome teammates in Zug (🇨🇭), A Coruna (🇪🇸), and Lisbon (🇵🇹).

👨‍💻 About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Safe, you will be supporting the team with setting up and maintaining services that support the Safe infrastructure on a multitude of Ethereum networks.

Your role will involve ensuring our services stack is up and running by providing bug fixes and infrastructure updates. You will be responsible for automating and improving development and release processes, supporting external teams, proposing and implementing infrastructure improvements, and ensuring the development workflows have the necessary security measures, monitoring tools, and alert systems in place for all the applications that are hosted on AWS.

Our Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog

Check our github:

• Transaction Service: https://github.com/gnosis/safe-transaction-service
• Client Gateway: https://github.com/gnosis/safe-client-gateway
• Config service: https://github.com/gnosis/safe-config-service
• Events Service: https://github.com/safe-global/safe-events-service

🗂 What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that systems are safe and secure
• Debug code and infrastructure issues in our services stack
• Automation improvements for the development and release processes
• Analyze and propose infrastructure improvements
• Maintenance of our core services stack
• Support external teams in configuring our service stack in their infrastructure
• Coordinate the setup of services for new ETH chains
• Configuration of alerts to detect failures

🎒 What you’ll bring

• Proficiency with Python
• Strong experience in Linux administration
• Experience with Docker and Docker Compose
• Experience with Monitoring tools like Datadog
• Good knowledge of high availability services
• Working knowledge of Django and Celery

➕ Nice to have

• Experience with Typescript
• Experience with Kubernetes administration
• Experience with Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Experience with PagerDuty or similar
• AWS (or other cloud) administration skills

🎉 What we can offer you

• Personal education and conference budgets
• Friday afternoons on research or on a side project in our ecosystem
• Flexible workplace when it comes to your work schedule
• Token allocation for all employees
• Annual company retreats
• Office space in Berlin (Full Node) - a co-working space for blockchain projects)

Please apply with your English resume.

We’re growing rapidly, the industry is expanding fast, and we have a lot to do. If you’re someone who loves taking initiative and getting things done, there’s a lot of opportunities for you at Safe. We look forward to your application!

Variety is the spice of life and a celebrated component of our culture. At Safe, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer: all qualified applicants are considered for positions regardless of race, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, marital status, gender identification, sexual orientation, or physical ability.