Senior DevOps Engineer

Blockchain is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Founded in 2011, we provide the world’s largest and most trusted production blockchain platform, powering more than 75 million wallets. Together with our platform of liquidity and execution services, we share the passion to build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

We are looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Institutional team in our London office. Blockchain.com is a high-performance culture marked by fearlessness and hyper-productivity. You are a hardworking team player with a desire to learn and grow with us, someone who can work harder, faster, and smarter to deliver tangible results and process improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Use innovative cutting-edge technology to reduce complexity and improve trading performance.
• Partner closely with traders and engineers, taking ownership of both trading & operational issues.
• Design, maintain and support low-latency trading systems, ensuring minimal delays in data processing and transaction execution.
• Contribute to our cloud-native continuous delivery stack, improving developer experience and deployment processes for our internal platforms.
• Liaise closely with the core SRE team to give feedback regarding tooling and to implement upstream policies  
• Integrate code that leverages established practices with infrastructure-based tooling
• Develop monitoring tools for our institutional services
• Streamline and maintain a Python/Rust-based infrastructure for production trading; manage production servers with a focus on scalability, fault-tolerance, and cost efficiency.
• Continuously improve security, reliability, and cost-efficiency across the platform through automation and best DevOps practices.
• Advocate for and implement best practices in CI/CD, cloud, and infrastructure management.
• Understand deeply the existing architecture being used at Blockchain.com, implement best practices within the Institutional teams and drive consistency with the rest of the platform

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Proficiency with CI/CD technologies (GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Strong Python, SQL & Linux skills
• Knowledge of Rust is not required but would be beneficial
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS & GCP) with hands-on experience in public cloud environments.
• Expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
• Familiarity with containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad).

COMPENSATION & PERKS

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
• Hybrid model working from home & awesome office location in London
• Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
• Apple equipment
• The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
• Flexible work culture

Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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