Senior Engineer SRE DevOps at MachineFi Lab

Our Vision: Machines Will Be Our Future Workforce

Here at MachineFi Lab, we’re building tomorrow’s internet today and powering the new reward economy by creating a fairer / safer / and more rewarding internet of things! MachineFi is a new paradigm that underpins the future Web3 machine economy, where machine resources, services, and intelligence can be monetized/financialized to deliver value, control, and ownership to everyday people and businesses, not centralized corporations. If you’re a maverick, a digital renegade, one of those who say no to the status quo, a person crazy enough to think you can change the world, then MachineFi is for you.

Senior Engineer, SRE/DEVOPS. (Part-Time/Contract Position)

Engineering | US (All Locations)

Job Overview:

We are seeking a talented and experienced DevOps/SRE Engineer to join our fast-paced and innovative team. As a DevOps/SRE Engineer at MachineFi, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our blockchain infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain robust DevOps practices, automate deployment pipelines, and enhance the overall system performance.

• Infrastructure Automation: Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as K8S, Terraform or Ansible on GCP and AWS.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of blockchain nodes and related services.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for blockchain and backend applications to ensure efficient and reliable release processes.
• Implement automated testing strategies to validate code quality and deployment readiness.
• Monitoring and Incident Response: Establish and maintain monitoring solutions for the entire infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance application-level monitoring and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents promptly.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices across the infrastructure.
• Work closely with the security team to conduct regular audits and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and make recommendations for improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan for future infrastructure needs.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer in a blockchain/crypto environment.
• Strong proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with blockchain technologies (e.g., Ethereum, Cosmos).
• Significant experience with AWS public cloud technologies implemented large-scale container clusters: AWS, EKS, Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Containers technologies (Docker and Kubernetes), and IAM
• Strong programming/scripting skills with one or more scripting languages (Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, etc.) and strong Linux OS and networking fundamentals.
• Experience building monitoring systems to ensure high availability, performance, and security integrity (e.g., ELK-stack, Pingdom, Opsgenie/Pagerduty, Kiali, Weave Scope, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in operating microservices architecture based SaaS products, REST web services, SSO (Okta, Auth0), EC2-RDS, MySQL and Elasticsearch.
• Solid understanding of network protocols, security, and system administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and related services.
• AWS System Architect certification is strongly preferredKnowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Self-motivated and excited about the ambiguity, opportunity, and self-direction required at an early stage startup.

If you are passionate about blockchain technology, thrive in a dynamic environment, and possess the skills and experience outlined above, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to contribute to the future of decentralized innovation. Join us at MachineFi and be part of a team that's shaping the future of blockchain technology.

About MachineFi and Our Culture:

MachineFi Lab, IoTeX’s core developer, is a leading tech provider for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), a Web3 category predicted to become a multi-trillion-dollar economy powered by billions of smart devices and trillions of sensors. Its team of over 60 research scientists and engineers released W3bstream, the world's first decentralized off-chain compute framework for smart devices and real-world data. It aims to provide advanced middleware and tools for Web2 businesses connecting to Web3 token incentives with real-world activity confirmed by user-owned smart devices, unlocking new business opportunities through its Proof-of-Anything technology, which can be used with several data sets, such as in location, activity, and humanity.

MachineFi Lab’s easy-to-use tools for the creation of  X-and-earn scenarios, such as play-and-earn, walk-and-earn, or sleep-and-earn—community-owned machine networks, such as smart cities, public utilities, and other physical infrastructure. Backed by nearly 20 prominent VCs, including Samsung Next, Jump Crypto, Draper Dragon, Xoogler Ventures, IOSG, Wemade, and Escape Velocity, MachineFi Lab is building advanced technology to bring the metaverse into the real world, and vice versa.