Site Reliability Engineer, Network Experience

Who are we?

Phi Labs is the core contributor of the Archway protocol, a layer 1 blockchain designed to reward dapp developers.

We are a software engineering company that focuses on the Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm, state-of-the-art frameworks for blockchain development. Our vision is to empower people to create a more transparent and accountable world through open, distributed, and interoperable networks.

Archway is reshaping how value is created and shared across blockchain ecosystems. Initially incubated by Tendermint (Cosmos founders), Phi Labs raised a $21 million seed round from Hashed and CoinFund

Our tech stack

• Kubernetes

• Google Cloud Platform

• Terraform and Ansible

• Grafana / Prometheus / Loki

• CosmosSDK / CometBFT

• GoLang

What's the opportunity? 

We are looking for a highly motivated SRE engineer who has experience operating blockchain infrastructure or is highly motivated to learn.

This is a unique role for someone to come in and play an elemental role in building and owning critical blockchain infrastructure (APIs, Validators, Relayers) with focus on monitoring, and implementing strong SLAs. You will be responsible for operating the backbone of multiple decentralised networks.

It’s a career-defining opportunity to join as an early member of a fast-growing project where you can make the role your own, being creative in what you do contributing to our engineering teams' efforts.

The sky's the limit! 🚀

How we work

We have team members working worldwide, from the Americas, Europe to the Middle East and Asia. We leverage agile methodologies to move quickly and stay focused. Communication is vital to us, and we rely heavily on Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, and GitHub to help us stay in sync. Most of the technology we build is free and open source.

This role is a full-time remote position, and you’re free to work from anywhere. Be advised that most team meetings occur between 6:30 am and 10:00 am Pacific Time (UTC-8/-7). If you're applying from a location where these hours are outside your usual working hours, we expect you to adapt to our meeting times.

What’s in it for you

📍 Remote-first company with company off-sites and retreats

🌎 Flexible, dynamic environment within a diverse international team

🧑‍💻 The scope to create and build high-impact work that makes a difference in the Cosmos ecosystem and blockchain industry as a whole

💸 Attractive compensation package with a token allocation after probation period

✈️ Generous time off to rest, recharge, and be your best

What you will need

• Previous experience in areas as Site Reliability Engineering, System Engineering and/or DevOps
• Previous experience operating blockchain nodes is preferred
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration and application deployment on Kubernetes
• Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning and configurations tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with deployment and administration of Monitoring and Logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and/or ELK stack
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in one of the popular CI/CD. We use Github Actions and ArgoCD at Philabs.
• Familiarity with one or more of the following programming languages is preferred but not required: Go, python
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, AZURE)

About you

• Relentlessly curious about the emerging technology of the web3 ecosystem

• Clear communicator who enjoys solving real world problems, who can express complex ideas and envisage solutions

• Thrives in a distributed environment, with the ability to strengthen and build relationships across the blockchain community

• Independent yet collaborative leader who continuously loves to share knowledge but also loves to keep on learning themselves

• Comfortable with rotating on-call duty and handling alerts