The Senior Go Platform Engineer will develop and enhance testing environments for the Omni protocol, automate deployments, and support protocol upgrades while collaborating with technical teams.
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About the role
We’re building Omni: a platform allowing developers to deploy applications across all rollups without fragmenting liquidity. We’re looking for early team members to help us bring this ambitious vision to life.
We’re a team who already built a platform that processed over $70M leading to our $18M fundraise from top investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures alongside angel investors including Stani Kulechov (founder of Aave), Sandeep Nailwal (cofounder of Polygon) and more. In addition to this we have over $4B deposited to secure Omni on mainnet.
We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale Ethereum's future.
We are growing rapidly and we need ambitious and experienced team members to join us to help scale Ethereum's future.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer proficient in Golang to develop and enhance testing environments and infrastructure for the Omni protocol.
Responsibilities
- Develop our load testing framework to evaluate the performance and scalability of our protocols.
- Ensure seamless protocol upgrades and manage rollback procedures when necessary.
- Implement automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and scaling within the cloud environment.
- Collaborate with protocol engineers to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure systems uptime and incident resolution.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience in Go programming or similar language.
- 1+ years of experience in a blockchain protocol.
- Proficient with cloud services such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
- Experience with automation and scripting using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible.
- Strong background in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Ability to handle on-call responsibilities reliably and effectively.
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Location: Must be in the New York (EST) or Europe (CET) time zones.
- Overlap hours: Available daily from 9 AM to 12 PM EST for team collaboration.
Competencies
- Autonomous — specifically seeks to take greater ownership and responsibility and thrives in their personal growth by doing so
- Action oriented — we are looking for people who take action by default, consistently driving forward progress without asking for permission
- An engineer in both thought and implementation — they must be able to design architecture and see it through to implementation
- Adaptable — thrives in ambiguity, able to quickly iterate and push forward as the business dynamically expands
- Highly intelligent — learns quickly and can participate in abstract intellectually engaging conversations
- Effective communicator — clearly articulates ideas and engages in debates in a productive manner that leads us to making better decisions
Nice to Haves
- Experience building a system with a distributed consensus mechanism
- Solid understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine
Benefits
Our benefits include competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, regular team off-sites around the world and unlimited PTO. In addition, you'll join a team of high-caliber people innovating at the frontier of crypto that work collaboratively to help one another accelerate their personal growth.
Values
We are a mission driven company. We believe deeply that through software engineering we can build a self-sovereign society. In our day to day, we make decisions based upon our company values and operating principles:
Company values
- Customer centricity
- Long-term orientation
- Courage
Operating principles
- High-trust & autonomy
- Kindness & respect
- Collaboration
- Humility & low-ego
- Transparency
- Data driven
- Precise communication
- Results oriented
- “Kerplunk”: clean handoffs and acknowledgement of ownership between team members
The future belongs to all of us, independent of our origins. Omni is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender or any other status protected under federal, state or local law.
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Azure
GCP
Go
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Terraform
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