Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Who are we?

FalconX is a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets. Operating at the intersection of traditional finance and 
cutting-edge technology, FalconX addresses the industry's foremost challenges: Navigating the digital asset market can be complex and fragmented, with limited products and services that support trading strategies, structures, and liquidity found in conventional financial markets. As a comprehensive solution for all digital asset strategies from start to scale, FalconX operates as the connective tissue empowering clients with seamless navigation through the ever-
evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a devops team, dedicated to building internal platforms.
• Work closely with internal teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and  developer productivity
• Engage in and improve the infrastructure quality supporting the platform.
• Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
• Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
• Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.

 Minimum Qualification

• Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
• Experience with programming. Preferably Python, or Go.
• Knowledge of Linux internals and bash scripting.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.
• Strong experience in managing infrastructure with cloud providers like AWS.
• Experience in container orchestration systems like kubernetes. 
• Strong experience in Observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Experience in standards devops tools for infrastructure management (terraform/opentofu etc), CI/CD (ArgoCD, Jenkins etc)

Preferred Qualification

• Expertise in automation tools like Ansible, Terraform.
• Expertise in devops tooling like Jenkins, ArgoCD, github actions
• Expertise in advanced observability (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc) and monitoring stacks, preferably Grafana stack. 
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.
• Extensive experience in supporting production systems as SRE.
• Experience in setting up monitoring stack for process and docker based environments.

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Inclusivity Statement

FalconX is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and safe workspace for all people. Our roles are intended for people from all walks of life. We encourage all those interested in applying to our organization to submit an application regardless if you are missing some of the listed background requirements, skills, or experiences!

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