About Company

Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to stateful blockchains, starting with Ethereum.

Job Description

Summary

What Youll Do:

  • 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

Who You Are:

  • 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.

Nice-to-haves

  • Contributions to open source projects

  • Development of distributed systems

  • Experience with:

    • Golang and Rust

    • Public clouds and bare-metal hosting providers

Details that matter

  • 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, while we have a preference for EU/US time zones, you can 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

Skills
  • Effective communication
  • Rust