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Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
You will lead an experienced Site Reliability Engineering team, ensuring our services and tooling are available, building infrastructure to make our team's production and testing environments available, and greasing the rails of our systems and processes to ensure they're robust, efficient, and easy to deploy.
SDF has a robust career path for both individual contributors and managers.
In this role, you will:
<ul>
<li>Establish a clear vision and mandate for the Site Reliability Engineering team</li>
<li>Define the SRE team's quarterly OKRs to best align with the company's goals</li>
<li>Define processes of collaboration between SREs and development teams throughout the software development lifecycle</li>
<li>Define a career growth path for the SRE team, as well as coach and mentor individual contributors on the team</li>
<li>Define and track metrics across engineering and help hold engineering teams accountable for their KPIs</li>
<li>Coordinate priorities with other teams and areas of the organization</li>
<li>Participate in sprint planning and execution, track progress and oversee day-to-day tactical decisions</li>
<li>Design and build reliable systems, and infrastructure that is easy to use by software engineers</li>
<li>Monitor and troubleshoot systems in production</li>
<li>Define and participate in 24/7 on-call rotations alongside the team</li>
<li>Mediate technical discussions and review PRs</li>
<li>Jump in as needed with code fixes, troubleshooting and hands-on contributions</li>
<li>Collaborate across the Stellar ecosystem, engaging with key partners and advising on their integration to set them up for success</li>
</ul>
You have:
<ul>
<li>3+ years of experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer</li>
<li>3+ years of experience managing an SRE team</li>
<li>Site Reliability Engineering experience:
<ul>
<li>Strong track record of collaborating with dev teams at all stages of product development (design, development/CI, beta testing, production)</li>
<li>Strong track record collaborating on defining, measuring and driving improvements in KPIs</li>
<li>Strong track record assisting teams during Root Cause Analysis and post mortems</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Infrastructure and Operations experience:
<ul>
<li>Designing and building out the infrastructure for large distributed systems</li>
<li>Maintaining highly-available infrastructure</li>
<li>Troubleshooting and understanding complex technical problems</li>
<li>Using configuration Management or IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet</li>
<li>Building and maintaining infrastructure using Kubernetes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Highly autonomous; able to find clarity in ambiguous circumstances</li>
<li>Excellent communicator; comfortable working with remote team members</li>
</ul>
Bonus Points if (optional):

<ul>
<li>3+ years of experience writing code in a major programming language</li>
<li>You have worked on an open source project</li>
<li>You have managed a distributed team</li>
<li>You build things for fun in your spare time</li>
</ul>
We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $210,000 - $310,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:
USA Benefits/Perks:
<ul>
<li>Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents</li>
<li>Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break</li>
<li>Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents</li>
<li>Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)</li>
<li>Life & ADD (up to $50K)</li>
<li>Short & Long term disability</li>
<li>401K with 4% match</li>
<li>Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts</li>
<li>Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution</li>
<li>Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution</li>
<li>Family building benefits through Kindbody</li>
<li>Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)</li>
<li>L&D budget of $1,500/year</li>
<li>Daily lunch and snacks in office</li>
<li>Company retreats</li>
</ul>


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About Stellar
 
Stellar is more than a blockchain. Powered by a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network made for financial products and services and a thriving and passionate ecosystem that includes a non-profit organization driven by a mission, Stellar is paving the path to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. Built with speed and low costs in mind, the Stellar network provides builders and financial institutions worldwide a platform to issue assets, and to send and convert currencies in real time creating real world utility. Founded in 2014, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) supports the continued development and growth of the Stellar network and also serves the ecosystem of NGOs, corporations, universities, small businesses, governments, and solo entrepreneurs building on the Stellar network through tooling, funding and strategic collaborations. Together, Stellar is where blockchain meets the real world.
 
About the Stellar Development Foundation
 
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization focused on working with and supporting changemakers to create equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology. SDF provides grants, investments, funding, and other awards to builders and organizations. SDF also develops resources and tooling on the Stellar network to help unlock real world utility. As a nonprofit foundation, SDF puts the health of the Stellar network and the Stellar ecosystem and its mission above all else.
 
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Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
In this role, you will: 
<ul>
<li>Maintain, improve, scale and secure our AWS/GCP infrastructure and Linux systems.</li>
<li>Assist our development teams in running, packaging, deploying and troubleshooting applications</li>
<li>Work with developers on streamlining deployment processes with Jenkins and other CI/CD tooling.</li>
<li>Build, maintain, monitor and improve our Kubernetes clusters.</li>
<li>Work with development teams on migrating applications to Kubernetes.</li>
<li>Be responsible for maintenance and improvements to multiple internal services, for example  Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK.</li>
<li>Monitor, triage and respond to alerts in our high availability environments.</li>
<li>Participate in design and code reviews, and ensure that the foundation for our services is best in class.</li>
<li>Evaluate new technologies, design and implement as appropriate.</li>
<li>Identify automation opportunities and implement by creating custom or by using off the shelf solutions.</li>
</ul>
You have: 
<ul>
<li>5+ years of experience of working in cloud-based systems operations, as a SRE or DevOps engineer.</li>
<li>First-hand experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).</li>
<li>Proficient in utilizing SRE methodologies like capacity planning and disaster recovery testing to ensure the scalability, resilience, and availability of critical services.</li>
<li>A strong understanding of computer networking, TCP/UDP, load balancing, distributed computing, web services, and the fundamental protocols used by the internet (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, etc.).</li>
<li>Experienced in managing production workloads and skilled in using monitoring tools to detect issues early.</li>
<li>Comfortable with participating in on-call rotations and conducting thorough root cause analyses to keep systems running smoothly.</li>
<li>Proficiency in at least one programming language.</li>
<li>Committed to supporting teammates, especially during challenging times, and excited about working in a close-knit, growing team. Approachable, empathetic, and proactive in promoting collaboration and innovation.</li>
<li>Excels in working independently, demonstrating the ability to accomplish tasks without constant monitoring.</li>
<li>Production experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.</li>
</ul>
Bonus Points if:
<ul>
<li>Ability to understand Go, Rust, C++ and TypeScript source code</li>
</ul>
We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $150,000- $200,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

Minimum Qualification
<ul>
<li>BS with 5 years or MS with 3 years working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer</li>
<li>Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go</li>
<li>Experience working with trading systems from a high frequency trading shop, investment banking or crypto company</li>
<li>Deep knowledge of Linux internals.</li>
<li>Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.</li>
<li>Strong experience in managing infrastructure with providers like AWS.</li>
<li>Strong experience in Cloud Native technologies in kubernetes, docker etc.</li>
<li>Basic knowledge of RDBMS systems like mysql.</li>
<li>Understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP.</li>
</ul>

Preferred Qualification
<ul>
<li>Expertise in automation tools like Ansible, Terraform.</li>
<li>Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.</li>
<li>Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.</li>
<li>Extensive experience in supporting production systems as SRE.</li>
<li>Experience in setting up monitoring stack for process and docker based environments.</li>
</ul>

DevOps Engineer

Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.We are looking for engineers who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. We’re looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way. As a Production Engineer, you’ll build and integrate new experiences for Lightspark’s customers, and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of Lightspark infrastructure.WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:<ul><li>Designing, building, scaling, securing and maintaining production services</li><li>Writing or improving code frameworks (e.g. monitoring, logging, database access, authentication)</li><li>Desire to learn and grow in a highly collaborative environment</li><li>Building and optimizing core infrastructure to support new features and functionality</li><li>Joining the on-call rotation, supporting the Software Engineers, and debugging the hardest problems</li></ul>WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:<ul><li>5+ years of Production / Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering</li><li>Experience writing high quality and well tested code</li><li>Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams</li><li>CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.</li><li>Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions (i.e. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)</li><li>Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred</li><li>Openness to relocate to Los Angeles, California, or ability to travel to the LA office on a monthly basis working remotely</li></ul>Lightspark is on a mission to build the future of open, instant, and global financial infrastructure making payments accessible and affordable for everyone, everywhere. We're committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

Senior Production Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer builds and maintains shared platform capabilities, common libraries, and infrastructure that help Circle teams ship secure, reliable software quickly. You will build and operate scalable microservices and the infrastructure behind reliable, secure APIs, improve the software delivery experience, and partner with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, deploy, and operate production systems.You will also help teams safely adopt and operate AI-enabled tooling and workflows by engineering features for and maintaining Circle’s autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform. You will understand the operational characteristics and risks of AI services, integrate them into developer and operational workflows, and ensure appropriate reliability, observability, access controls, auditability, and cost management. You will troubleshoot production issues, document operational standards, and continuously improve the infrastructure and developer experience that enable Circle teams to move quickly with confidence.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CLO

San Francisco

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Circle

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on Circle’s Platform team, you’ll design, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers our blockchain platform at scale. You’ll own the reliability, performance, and automation of distributed blockchain systems across multiple public cloud environments, leveraging Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern SRE practices to deliver resilient, secure, and highly available services. Working closely with engineering, protocol, product, and security teams, you’ll build AI-powered tooling and automation that improves operational excellence, accelerates developer productivity, and enables the rapid delivery of new blockchain capabilities. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, and is passionate about advancing the reliability and scalability of blockchain infrastructure.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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