Site Reliability Engineer

Asymmetric Research:

Asymmetric Research ("AR") is a boutique venture focused on deep partnerships with L1/L2 blockchains and DeFi protocols to keep them safe. We specialize in four core domains; security, research, engineering, incident response, and infrastructure services.

Culture:

AR is a globally distributed, fully remote organization. Our team members, with collective experience from organizations like Google, Netflix, Mozilla, Stripe, Solana, and Jump Crypto, are deeply committed to open-source values. We take pride in our high levels of confidentiality, trust, and professionalism.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a globally distributed fleet of blockchain infrastructure services

• Deploy infrastructure as code deployments to both dev, staging, and production environments

• Work in a globally distributed high performing team to deliver mission-critical services to the financial sector.

• Design, Architect, Deploy, and Manage blockchain infrastructure services.

• Adhere to the highest standards of integrity, trust, and professionalism.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience

• Excellent experience managing Linux and network infrastructure.

• Experience with load balancers and other high-availability technologies (e.g., HAproxy, ALB/ELB, etc.)

• Prior experience with configuration management tooling (eg. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, etc.)

• Excellent troubleshooting fundamentals on both hardware and software.

• Development experience in Golang, Python, or Rust.

• Experience with continuous integration pipelines and automated deployments

• Experience OSS monitoring tools (eg. Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager)

Nice to have:

• Distributed systems experience in tools such as nomad or kubernetes

• Prior experience with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, or Move blockchain technologies

Benefits:

• 25-days paid vacation

• Office and equipment stipend

• Pension / 401K programs

• Life Insurance

• Premium Healthcare

• Competitive Base Salary

• Lucrative Bonus Programs