About Uphold The Web3 economy will redefine how financial value is held and transacted - with much activity shifting towards blockchain networks and digital assets. Founded in 2013, Uphold is a Web3 financial platform that supports almost 300 digital assets and acts as a Regulated Gateway to the Web3 economy. Featuring integrations with 26 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine connected to 30 underlying venues, the platform allows users to trade 'Anything-to-Anything' while enjoying keen pricing and deep liquidity. Uphold has completed more than 120 million transactions worth $40 billion from 10 million customers in over 150 countries. Both people and companies need to access this exciting Web3 world, but it can be technically demanding and time-consuming. Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone. To learn more about Uphold, please visithttps://uphold.com. The opportunity: Uphold is looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you'll get to focus on building and improving the many microservices powering our web and mobile applications for consumers and businesses. You will be designing and building services with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security. If you are excited about cloud-based large-scale systems, high-availability requirements, scalability problems, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, and infrastructure as code, Uphold is the place for you! What you'll be doing primarily: Working on a high profile and global platform operating in the fintech and cryptocurrency space.Driving and collaboratively delivering a fully automated infrastructure and development pipeline.Participating in deployments with strict availability requirements on a large scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.Expanding our effort in writing our infrastructure as code using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.Evolving our automation tasks into new territories.Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors.Supporting the team as required via on-call schedule rotation. Required qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.Spent lots of quality time coding non-trivial scripts and automating tasks in order to automate yourself out of the job.Strong knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.Strong knowledge of container technology (e.g. LXC, Docker) and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.Understanding of infrastructure management as code.Knowledge of modern web development practices and other software development practices.Knowledge of the concepts behind immutable infrastructure.Knowledge of revision control systems.Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.Fluent written and oral English skills. Bonus if you have: Experience with cloud-native edge or service proxies.Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational databases (Redis, Elasticsearch).Experience with message queues (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar or RabbitMQ).Experience working with CI systems such as Concourse, Travis CI, CircleCI, Codeship, GitLab CI or others.Experience with Disaster Recovery and Highly Available infrastructure patterns.An interest in security topics or proven record of security measures implemented on other products you've worked on.Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you've had or fixing issues on existing projects.Importantly, if you're looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities. What we have to offer you: Innovation and Impact: Be a part of a company driving innovation and making meaningful impact. Work on cutting-edge projects in a stimulating and challenging work environment.Competitive Compensation: We offer a salary, stock options, performance-based bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.Strong Company Culture: Join a supportive and positive work environment built on shared values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.Global All-Hands Calls: Regular sessions to share updates, strategize, and foster connections.Development: Opportunities for training and mentorship programs.Flexibility: Work from home, from other locations or slightly different hours available.Inclusive and Diverse Environment: Foster an environment where different perspectives are valued. Benefits: Annual bonus program based on individual, team and company performance.Home office stipend to support the setup of a productive home office.Generous PTO, healthcare coverage, and employee assistance programs.Interesting and fun events and celebrations.Foodie culture and well-stocked office kitchen.Join our team and embark on a fulfilling career where you'll have the opportunity to grow, innovate, and contribute to something meaningful. Come and be a part of our talented team! If this job isn't exactly what you are looking for, visit ourcareers pageto check out all our exciting opportunities. EEOC Employer We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us stronger and better - together.
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