Site Reliability Engineer IOE: Cardano

IOHK is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.

We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.

What the role involves:

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you are an integral part of our open-source project, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our production systems. This role combines service operation, systems engineering, and software engineering principles to operate and monitor services as well as create or maintain tools, automations, and infrastructure code that bolster the efficiency and resilience of our platform.

1. Design, write, and deliver tools and software primarily using Python, Bash, Terraform, or Nix to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services.
2. Engage in and refine the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
3. Practice sustainable incident response and promote blameless postmortems.
4. Collaborate with the development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer experience, scalability, and performance in mind.
5. Analyze system performance and reliability, offering recommendations for enhancement.
6. Develop and uphold service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for our services.
7. Participate in on-call rotations, responding to and mitigating service interruptions and technical challenges.