Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Security
Google Cloud
Ansible
DevOps
Docker
Terraform
Amazon AWS

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Flexible working
Team workouts
Unlimited vacation
Conference tickets
Travel opportunities

Evaluate, deploy, monitor, and maintain the latest generation of proof-of-stake blockchain networks

Role overview

Overview

The primary project of Heliax is the Anoma protocol (implemented in Rust). Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. In addition to Anoma, Heliax works on open-source projects which are part of the Anoma ecosystem, including but not limited to research in cryptographic libraries such as the MASP or Ferveo (written in Rust), and tools for high assurance validity predicates and arbitrary zero-knowledge circuits (Juvix, written in Haskell).

Heliax is a remote-first team, currently composed of cross-disciplinary members located around the world. All of our work is open-source. Our work culture is characterized by open-allocation, where team members have a high degree of freedom and autonomy in choosing when to work, what to work on, and whom to work with.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an engineer interested in distributed ledger technology to support the public Anoma testnets and help community members by writing guides and tutorials. As a blockchain infrastructure engineer, you will work with us in evaluating, deploying, monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading the Anoma testnets. Furthermore you will be responsible for ensuring that external users can easily deploy our software.

Build deployment pipelines for the Anoma testnets
Build, improve, maintain, and upgrade our validator software and hardware infrastructure
Monitor and maintain testnets (and eventually the mainnet) for any performance issues or bottlenecks, unusual behavior and unexpected outages.
Monitor network traffic and configure physical & virtual minimal-permission access control for fault isolation
Automate and scale infrastructure configuration as networks grow.

Qualifications

Experience with administrating Linux systems and with configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, Docker)
Experience with cloud platform services and tooling (GCP, AWS)
Experience with metrics collection and monitoring
Working understanding of TCP/IP network stack
Online availability for unforeseen remotely-fixable issues
Self-motivated & self-organized
Strong communication skills.

Bonus Qualifications

Programming experience in Rust or other low level and systems programming languages
Prior experience and interest in blockchain technology
Experience in building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
Experience in deploying and scaling high-performance database software
Interest in and experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
Experience in supporting a wide range of external users

Misc

Remote, preferred located in Central Europe (e.g. Berlin, Germany).
Ideally someone who enjoys travels, nature, and hiking 🏔️.

Heliax

10-49

Heliax is a research, development, and product company dedicated to bringing novel research to bear on the hardest problems in the distributed ledger space and making self-sovereign and privacy-preserving technologies accessible worldwide. Our Work Heliax is the core development team building the Anoma Network, a layer 1, proof-of-stake, blockchain protocol that deploys cutting edge research in zero-knowledge cryptography and distributed systems design to enable private, asset-agnostic cash, bartering among any number of parties, and coordination mechanisms at large scale. Our Research Heliax's R&D team distills novel research across many disciplines, such as zero-knowledge cryptography, programming language theory, and computer science with the aim of building open-source tools that contribute to solving the bottlenecks in the blockchain industry. Some of our past projects include: Juvix, a dependently-typed high-level language for developing smart contracts, which is platform agnostic and able to output efficiently executable code. MASP, a zero-knowledge cryptographic scheme implemented in Rust that enables multi-denomination privacy sets Our Culture Heliax is a remote-first company with +20 team members located around the world. Our culture is defined by the following principles: Shaping the industry: join the vanguard of the emerging blockchain industry and work on problems that have never been solved before and on building systems and products that were not possible before. Remote first: from Canada, United States, Brazil, the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Taiwan, Japan– work from whenever you want. Open allocation: high degree of autonomy and flexibility. Team gatherings: from company-wide to team-specific gatherings to research and industry conferences.

Typed Functional Programming

haskell

Early Stage Venture

Blockchain