Senior DevOps

At Flashbots, we're building the foundations of the future Internet and financial system. As an R&D organization, we focus on MEV through our dual engines of open research and breakthrough product development – like mev-geth, Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet.

Our vibe is accelerationist, exceptional, kind, and independent. We are explorers, innovators, builders, and thinkers. We thrive on action, curiosity, and impact - driving the future in an iterative way while keeping an eye towards the long term version we want to see in the world.

Flashbots is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to augment our small team. You will collaborate closely with our teams of scientists and engineers to support products like SUAVE, Flashblocks, and Rollup-Boost.

Due to working with confidential data, you may be subject to trading restriction policies.

• Common DevOps tasks

  • Administrate Kubernetes clusters and deployments, servers, automation, and observability, always in IaC

  • Partner with Engineers and Product Owners to support their work

  • Create automation and tooling

• Unique DevOps tasks

  • Collaborate closely with internal and external teams to develop at the cutting edge of TEE systems

  • Contribute to and operate foundational infrastructure in blockchains and their rollups

• Genuine desire to understand the blockchain and MEV problem space.

• Production experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

• Deep understanding of engineering principles and best practices.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, async, and remote environment.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Disposed to action, finding out, and showing; curiosity to get to the root of the problems.

• Kind, independently motivated, accountable, and reliable.

• By default leave things better than you found them.

• Contributions to open source projects

• Development of distributed systems

• Experience with:

  • Golang and Rust

  • Public clouds and bare-metal hosting providers

• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package

• Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work

• Attractive health coverage package for US employees

• $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals

• Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space

• Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant

• Remote working - work from anywhere in the world

• Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events

At Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.