Devops / Backend Engineer

WalletConnect is an open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking. Started 4 years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. We’re the fastest growing piece of end user experience infrastructure for crypto with over 200+ product integrations and are looking for more team members to help scale our services.

We’re looking for a founding Devops Engineer to join our team to help scale our backend infrastructure and build monitoring services.

Responsibilities:

• Support a detailed deployment and integration documentation for other team members
• Implement new web3 technologies into our stack
• Identify constraints in infrastructure and propose possible solutions to improve performance or reliability
• Juggle between backend and devops roles depending on demand

Requirements

Must have:

• 2+ years experience in a Linux Sysadmin or Devops role
• AWS preferred, but any cloud provider experience is acceptable
• Golang/Typescript development experience
• Monitoring systems: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, or other
• Nomad or Docker Swarm. Kubernetes experience is also nice to have.
• Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Practice good Linux security standards
• Demonstrated experience with managing production services

Nice to have:

• This is still very much in greenfield and your capabilities can have an impact in the direction this takes
• Nix/NixOS would be an amazing plus, but not necessary.
• Experience developing containerized applications
• Experience operating decentralizing node infrastructure

Benefits

What WalletConnect offers:

• $60,000 - $85,000 USD
• 1-2% company equity (founding team member stake)
• Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)