Location: Remote
About us
At Auros, we’re dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency ecosystem through unparalleled liquidity and market-making services. We’re one of the largest participants in the market, trading across 10+ global locations, facilitating 3-4% of global daily volumes, and have connectivity to over 50 venues.
What sets us apart, though, is our culture. We believe in hiring smart people and empowering them to do their best work. From day one you’ll have the autonomy and support to really excel. Our relentless focus on delivery drives us to continuously push boundaries and achieve exceptional results, all while offering abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in the dynamic realm of digital assets.
The Opportunity
Auros is looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who can ramp up quickly into supporting our high-performance infrastructure for trading digital assets. You’ll play a key part in building, deploying and supporting systems that execute millions of trades on CeFi and DeFi venues across the globe. In addition to supporting these trading systems you will implement solutions to interesting security, resilience and operational challenges in this fast-moving environment.
- Maintain and improve our global infrastructure with high performance and reliability requirements.
- Maintain and improve our blockchain nodes and DeFi related infrastructure.
- Improve and update the security infrastructure of a widely distributed company that operates in a high-risk environment.
- Engage and collaborate with other teams for system design discussions and improving DevOps processes.
- Development of internal tools and automation to accomplish infrastructure team goals.
- Understand our trading applications well and contribute to application tuning and troubleshooting; you will keep abreast of changes to trading system features and deployment.
- Providing guidance to developers looking to improve their application performance or reliability.
- Work closely with developers, traders and other staff to accomplish our firm’s goals.
Who you are
Our ideal candidate will have:
- We’re looking for someone who is very familiar with DeFi and cryptocurrencies; at a minimum, this role will require working with RPC nodes and APIs at various levels of development and maturity. A strong interest in cryptocurrency and finance in general is a must.
- An SRE/DevOps professional with 5+ years experience managing Linux systems in a high-performance environment.
- Cloud management using Terraform, with experience in the AWS environment and ideally Azure.
- Proficiency in Linux admin and configuration management using Ansible.
- A strong background in container management, deployment, and orchestration.
- Kubernetes experience is good to have, strong basic docker skills are required.
- This is not a network engineer role but a strong familiarity with TCP/IP and host-level networking is expected.
- Knowledge of networking management and routing in a cloud environment is a plus.
- Coding:
- o Extensive Python and bash experience is a must.
- o Javascript/Typescript or Go experience are nice to have.
- o This role will involve a significant amount of automation and API coding.
- Cybersecurity experience and expectations:
- o Strong knowledge of cloud security and IAM policies is required
- o Understanding of network security and application of zero-trust principles
- o Software supply chain security knowledge and experience will be desired, along with an understanding of vulnerability and secret scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
What We Offer in Return
- Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
- Remote and flexible work
- Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business.
At Auros, we value nimbleness, drive for success, owner mentality, and collaboration. Join us in shaping the future of financial services across Asia and beyond!
