About the company
Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. As a product, Status is an open-source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. With the high-level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute. As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.
Job Summary
The role
šDevOps is a buzzword, but it's also generic enough to encompass the breadth of tasks required in supporting development teams. There are many ways to make the lives of developers easier, and everyone has their own best way, which also means every team has their own way. There is no perfect way to make everyone happy with the same thing. šSupporting developers involves debugging obscure bash scripts from years ago that nobody remembers. It means biting on a piece of wood and using data formats turned programming languages like YAML to configure CI jobs. It means tracking down minute differences between releases of packages and libraries causing unexpected crashes. It means rewriting the same Dockerfile for the 5th time to allow a project to use one more obscure library. Or tracking down absurd race conditions of multi-threaded tests running in parallel on the same host. Or pulling your hair out at a bug only to realize it works fine after the CI worker host is restarted. šBut fundamentally it means wrestling it all into submission and making it run smoothly... at least for as long as you're there. šIf you have the guts to fight against entropy and deterioration of the reality we inhabit, then you just might also be crazy enough to enjoy the struggle while it lasts, and appreciate the eventual fruits of our labour, if you value privacy, freedom, and transparency. You might even make some money, and learn a bit from all the exceptional engineers working here.
Who you are
šYou have strong Linux Fundamentals: šDistros and package managers šGood understanding of process management šYou have programming experience: šAt least a few languages and showing the ability to learn šBash as a minimum; Python would be helpful šYou have experience in Continuous Integration: šJenkins CI - Pipelines are written in Groovy GitHub Actions - PR builds, mostly šYou have experience in Security: šGood understanding of OpenSSH šGnuPG for encryption of secrets and backups šDistributed Systems: šExperience running Ethereum nodes šKnowledge of Layer 2 scaling solutions
