DevOps Engineer

Posted May 5

The Role

About Rysk Labs

Rysk is building the next generation of decentralized derivatives exchanges. Our focus is on creating high performance, fast, low latency CLOB infrastructure. We prioritize performances, high capital efficiency and self custody to scale DeFi derivatives. Our goal is to provide the financial infrastructure necessary to exchange any asset in a fast and self custodial way and ultimately uproot traditional finance.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to improve the reliability, consistency, security, and performance of the Rysk infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will need to have a deep understanding of Kubernetes and experience operating services at scale. Some development experience is also desired in order to contribute to internal tools and help the rest of the engineering team develop, deploy and operate their services successfully.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and deployment processes.
  • Build tools to support the operation, automation, and monitoring of high load apps
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
  • Enhance our infrastructure security protocols.
  • Automate our operational processes as needed
  • Collaborate with developers to manage code releases and deployments.
  • Stay current with industry trends and source new ways to improve our infrastructure and efficiencies

Your profile

  • Senior-level experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a dev-focused DevOps role
  • Expert level scripting/coding skills in one or more languages (TypeScript/Golang/Python)
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, and GCP/AWS
  • Strong analytical and logical skills
  • Strong security mindset
  • Ownership mindset and a track record of successfully accomplished projects
  • Ability to simply articulate the "why" behind best practices and to build positive and collaborative relationships with rest of the team
  • Passion for crypto and derivatives trading

Working at Rysk Labs

At Rysk Labs, you have the freedom to work how you want, and from where you want. Rysk is a remote-first team (with optional travel to team and/or industry events). Our teams are streamlined and agile, free from rigid timekeeping and excessive red tape. We move fast. Only results matter. We designed our culture around the tenants of freedom and ownership.