The role

DevOps 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.

Supporting 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.

But fundamentally it means wrestling it all into submission and making it run smoothly... at least for as long as you're there.

If 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

You have strong Linux Fundamentals:

• Distros and package managers
• Good understanding of process management

You have programming experience:

• At least a few languages and showing the ability to learn
• Bash as a minimum; Python would be helpful 

You have experience in Continuous Integration:

• Jenkins CI - Pipelines are written in Groovy
• GitHub Actions - PR builds, mostly

You have experience in Security:

• Good understanding of OpenSSH
• GnuPG for encryption of secrets and backups

Distributed Systems:

• Experience running Ethereum nodes
• Knowledge of Layer 2 scaling solutions

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Hiring process

1. Interview with the Talent team
2. Paid task
3. Technical interview with Head of Infra

[The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline]

• Own the development and execution of treasury strategy for the organisation, covering both the fiat and crypto assets held in the treasury;
• Own the day-to-day management of both the cash and crypto asset components of the treasury, ensuring their security and liquidity;
• Implement and maintain the necessary operational processes and measures needed to ensure the security of crypto assets held in our treasury;
• Develop a risk management framework to identify, measure, and mitigate financial risks in the treasury, fostering a culture of risk awareness across the treasury and Finance team;
• Where appropriate, lead the selection and implementation of tools and systems required to strengthen the treasury management function of the organisation;
• Own the relationships with all banks, exchanges, market makers engaged by the organisation, maintain existing relationships (including managing information requests) and lead the efforts to onboard new providers;
• Work with the Finance team to forecast cash flows and maintain the liquidity necessary for timely payments and operations;
• Be hands-on with the execution of payment cycles, in both fiat and crypto, and working with the accounts payable function of Finance to make timely, accurate payments to suppliers.

• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles;
• Demonstrable experience securely managing a large crypto treasury, including evidence of how operational risks were identified and mitigated or hedged;
• Ability to design and implement treasury operations processes that are in line with industry best practices, including the management and execution of payment runs;
• Experience managing and maintaining banking relationships in an industry considered “high risk” by the banking sector;
• Experience developing and maintaining cash flow, risk and other treasury models to support a complex, multi-entity operational model;
• Bias towards automation and leveraging technology when designing and implementing processes.

• Experience working for an open-source organisation;
• Working knowledge of a programming language (e.g. Python) and developer tools and workflows (e.g. Markdown, Git).

1. Introduction call with the Talent team
2. Interview with Head of Finance
3. Paid project (2-3 hours of work)
4. Interview with Program Lead
5. Interview co-founder