Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Paxos

Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it.

We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world’s leading financial institutions, like PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard and Interactive Brokers.

Position

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our rapidly growing FinTech company. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be a key player in the automation of our infrastructure and code deployment.

What you’ll do:

• You will automate our infrastructure – you believe in Infrastructure As Code and detest manual tasks
• You will build observability into our environment and applications that help us monitor and self-heal when problems come up. Make the right trade-off between reliability and product feature speed – come up with metrics that define the tradeoff, get buy-in from stakeholders and measure against those
• You will automate code deployments so that we can release daily and often multiple times a day
• You will have active involvement and mentorship of junior engineers doing code reviews resulting in up leveling the skill set for the entire team

Your qualification

• You have significant exposure to AWS. Knowledge of other cloud providers is a plus
• You have strong knowledge of at least one of the languages(Go, Python, Kotlin, Java)
• You are a master of at least one domain – Infrastructure As Code tools(Docker, Terraform, Puppet, Helm), Monitoring tools(Prometheus, Zabbix), Container Orchestration tools(Kubernetes, Docker), Database technologies(Cassandra, Postgres), CI/CD tools(Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• You are able to understand and articulate the design and application of the architecture of the entire system
• You have a Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud native applications and system design (Answer – how to create scalable fault tolerant systems?)
• You embody our culture and values

Additional details

Our Products include:

• Paxos Standard (PAX) is the world’s first regulated crypto asset, fully collateralized 1:1 by the U.S. dollar. This stablecoin offers a liquid, digital alternative to cash that is available 24/7 for instantaneous transaction settlement around the world. Launched in September 2018, it’s the most traded USD-backed stablecoin 
• itBit is a crypto-asset exchange with trading services including escrow, custody and OTC trading
• Precious Metals: Based in London, our precious metals team works on a broad suite of products to simplify precious metals post-trade confirmations. The team launched Paxos Confirmation Service earlier this year