SRE - Lead Engineer

Description

About Datachain's Initiatives

On September 5, 2024, we announced a project to build a cross-border remittance infrastructure with international organizations! By using stablecoins, digital currencies whose value is linked to fiat currency, we aim to enable fast, cheap, and convenient international remittances.

Since its founding in 2018, Datachain has been conducting R&D on technology and business opportunities with the goal of creating a de facto infrastructure as a "global x deep tech" initiative originating in Japan.

Our company aims to become a decacorn (a startup with a corporate value of over $10 billion), and it's often said that to achieve this goal, we need to "win in global x deep tech."

The aforementioned cross-border remittance infrastructure project was launched as a major first step toward this goal. Currently, we are moving forward with the project with an advantage thanks to Japan's advanced legal framework. However, given the large size of the market, global competition is expected to intensify in the future.

In this climate, we are rapidly expanding our recruitment efforts, primarily for our development team, to pioneer the creation of a "de facto infrastructure" based on "global x deep tech" from Japan.

Why Datachain Can Realize This

• We have already begun developing an international remittance platform using stablecoins in collaboration with international organizations that connect financial institutions around the world.
• In June 2023, Japan became the first developed country to enact a bill regarding blockchain stablecoins, making Japan a world leader in legal development. This is important for major companies to utilize stablecoins.
• Datachain's research and development of inter-blockchain communication technology is world-leading.

What Makes This Position Rewarding

• The SRE Lead Engineer must launch new systems to drive major new business ventures, and to create an environment for building the ideal system, they must take on the role of team leader, i.e., leading the team.
• In addition to knowledge of standard web application infrastructure, the implementation role offers the exciting challenge of developing blockchain-specific tasks such as node management!

Technologies Used

*May vary by project

• Blockchain
  Language: Go, Rust, Solidity, Kotlin
  Network: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Cosmos, etc.
• Server-Side/Backend Development
  Language: Go
  Database: PostgreSQL (Azure Cosmos DB)
• Front-End Development
  TypeScript, Next.js, wagmi, Chakra UI
• Infrastructure/SRE
  Cloud: Azure, Kubernetes
  CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Workflows
  Monitoring: OpenTelemetry, Grafana

Requirements

• Experience designing and building based on cloud architecture best practices
• Experience with continuous development and system stability initiatives, including CI/CD, observability, and performance improvement
• Experience making operationally focused technical decisions while ensuring flexibility, including mid- to long-term system changes
• Implementation experience using statically typed languages (Go, C/C++, Java, Rust, Scala, etc.), capturing the unique characteristics of each language
• Ability to deduce and isolate problems in unknown systems
• A willingness to build systems with high security requirements
• Interest in and ongoing curiosity about the technologies that make up blockchain

Welcome requirements

• SRE-equivalent experience in environments with high security requirements, such as financial institutions and FinTech companies
• Distributed systems-related experience
• Engineering technical PR/recruitment experience
• Operational experience for large-scale applications and high-traffic services
• OSS publishing and contribution experience
• Blockchain-related development experience

Desired profile

• Someone who can assess the current situation, define the ideal future for systems, and create good systems.
• Someone who can determine the balance between business, organization, and technology and explain what that should be from a technical perspective.
• Someone who can collaborate with engineers and tech leads across the company to create a development team culture.
• Someone who will proactively improve their technical skills to create good systems and take the lead in creating a development environment and organization that will enable them to do so.
• Someone who can communicate security, cost, and performance perspectives from an SRE perspective and encourage improvements across the company.