As a Cloud Engineer at GFX Labs, you'll be instrumental in designing and implementing scalable cloud infrastructure to power cross-chain applications to be developed for the Wormhole ecosystem. Working directly with our Engineers, you'll help architect and maintain our cloud-native deployments across multiple platforms while ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.

You'll be responsible for both the infrastructure that supports our applications and contributing to the applications themselves, requiring a blend of traditional cloud engineering skills and software development expertise. Your work will ensure our services remain reliable, efficient, and secure while supporting high-volume cross-chain operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement cloud infrastructure using Pulumi and Terraform across multiple providers including DigitalOcean and fly.io
Manage Kubernetes clusters and develop Knative services to support our applications
Write and maintain applications in both Golang and TypeScript, leveraging your experience in deployment and delivery
Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for production services
Optimize cloud resource usage and costs while maintaining high availability
Collaborate with the development team to design scalable application architectures
Maintain critical production infrastructure and participate in on-call rotations
Automate deployment processes and implement infrastructure as code solutions

You might be great for this role if you have

1+ years of experience in Web3 frontend engineering.
2+ years of experience in frontend engineering.
2+ years of experience in backend engineering.
Attention to detail with excellent organizational and communication skills.
Thrive in an environment where you have significant independence.
You are proactive and driven by curiosity.
You have a strong work ethic with disciplined execution skills.
Robust Web3 experience.

We'd love to hear from you if…

You love tackling ambitious projects with the ability to change DeFi as we know it
You care about all aspects of customer experience
You can see things from a high level, and dive into the details with equal confidence
You think DeFi can improve day-to-day financial tooling

… and you really care about these details

You want to create brand new experiences
You can operate autonomously
You are pro-active and are driven by curiosity
You can build robust systems on both web and native platforms
You can handle complexity, but prefer simplicity

Tools we are using today

Golang, React, Node, Figma
Postgresql, Temporal, NATS, Clickhouse
Gitlab and Github
DigitalOcean, fly.io, Kubernetes, KNative, Pulumi, Terraform

GFX Labs

Cloud Engineer (Golang)

Chicago, Illinois (remote/hybrid)full-time120-180k/year

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