About the company
Flipside Crypto enables on-demand analytics for blockchains, driving ecosystem growth and retention. Through a free, open data platform, it enables 60,000 analysts to learn, collaborate and compete to solve analytical challenges via structured bounty programs. Flipside activates on projects with kinetic energy including Flow, Solana, Algorand, THORChain, SushiSwap, and Osmosis. Founded in 2017, Flipside Crypto recently raised $50M in a Series A financing led by Republic Capital with other investors including True Ventures, Galaxy Digital, M13, Dapper Labs, Collab Currency, Tribe Capital, HashKey and others. Flipside is remote-first (originally headquartered in Boston, MA) with a growing team of 75+ employees.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍Help setup new Blockchain networks by: 📍Doing deep dives on node software and running manual setup processes for testnets to learn the networks. 📍Writing Ansible automatons for managing and scaling nodes. 📍Interacting with the Blockchain organization and fellow validator operators in Discord and Slack. 📍Help maintain the network and automation infrastructure: 📍Use Ansible workflows to manage and provision bare metal servers and virtual machines. 📍Add features and fix bugs in the core infrastructure automation such as routing and load balancing. 📍Help debug networking issues. 📍Join an on-call rotation that includes paging in the event that critical services go down or suffer service degradation. 📍Contribute to internal applications that enable complex interactions with our Blockchain infrastructure that include: 📍Integrate new networks with our wallet custody by using their API to perform the required cryptographic operations. 📍Build custom monitoring to observe information from our infrastructure and report it to our observability stack. 📍Work cross functionally to gather requirements and gather user feedback for applications that face other employees.
Qualifications
📍Familiarity with basic Linux server administration including: 📍Proficiency with command line. 📍Managing headless servers via a command line interface. 📍Networking fundamentals and basic practical applications. 📍Familiarity with Git including branching, merging, and rebasing. 📍Minimum 2 years of relevant experience 📍Comfortable working within Proxmox virtualized environments. 📍Ansible experience is highly preferred, optionally Terraform 📍Expertise in designing and monitoring SLA's for critical infrastructure tools. 📍Any knowledge of blockchain infrastructure like 📍Ethereum or Cosmos Ecosystem.