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About BitMEX

BitMEX stands as a globally leading exchange for crypto derivatives, offering traders a professional-grade trading platform. Since its inception in 2014, BitMEX has maintained an impeccable security record with “no coin lost, ever!”.

Our platform caters to cryptocurrency derivatives traders by providing low latency, deep liquidity, and maximum availability. Currently, BitMEX offers more than 100 derivatives contracts, 16 pairs for spot trading, and an easy covert function between 30+ different cryptocurrencies.

In 2015, BitMEX revolutionised the market by inventing the Perpetual Swap, which has since become the most widely traded crypto product. Demonstrating a commitment to transparency, since 2021, BitMEX has been among the first exchanges to regularly publish its on-chain Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabilities, ensuring that the funds available exceed the total client balances."

For more information on BitMEX, company initiatives and our products, please visit the BitMEX Blog or www.bitmex.com, and follow LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram and X.

Overview

As a member of the Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for managing and supporting the infrastructure which drives our platform. The reliability and scalability of our technology is key to our success and this position will work with our development and  security teams to help design highly available and fault tolerant systems.

In particular you will be focussed on monitoring and optimizing our network performance to support the low-latency, high throughput operation of our trading exchange.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the resiliency, throughput and latency profiles of our trading systems, by working hand-in-hand with our trading technology teams
• Manage and support our AWS cloud infrastructure, EC2 instances and physical servers
• Development and management of IaC to ensure consistency of our infrastructure
• Ensuring security hardening of our OS builds and configurations
• Manage and maintain config management tooling to ensure consistency
• Integration of our stack with Kubernetes
• Ensure SRE best practices for design and operation of the stack
• Design, implement and test disaster recovery capabilities to ensure our business can continue to operate in the event of a technology failure
• Participate in an on-call rota for escalations

Qualifications

• Theoretical and practical networking knowledge, incl. but not limited to unicast and multicast routing protocols, Linux kernel’s TCP stack implementation, congestion avoidance/control (e.g. BBR), traffic control, network simulation, AWS VPC / TGW & Kubernetes VPC CNI, etc. DPDK experience being a plus.
• Professional experience with kernel troubleshooting: strace, bpftrace, perf profiling/tracing, navigating / reading / building the relevant kernel code.
• Professional experience with userland monitoring (e.g. Thanos/Prometheus/AlertManaging), logging (e.g. Splunk/Loki), alerting, troubleshooting, profiling/tracing, etc.
• Strong practical AWS knowledge, with min. 5 years of SRE / DevOps experience supporting and managing Linux based systems. Computer science, or engineering, degree preferred - strong understanding of fundamental Computer Science principles is required.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes / Ansible / Chef, and with one or more programming language: Python, Golang, C, NodeJS.

Why BitMEX?

BitMEX is a place of intense work, fun, and diversity, all at the same time. We hire across different time zones, to support the growing demands and to bring in the best of the best talents across the world. 

We are looking for individuals who are determined, responsible and collaborative to join BitMEX as we continue to build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem. We value attention to detail, speed and simplicity. As a global business operating a 24/7 exchange, we seek out those who are adaptable and can work across markets in a diversity team.

In addition, we offer an industry leading benefits package to our permanent employees. Here’s a peek into what we offer:

• Work from home to help you find the perfect balance between work, family and personal life
• 25 days of annual leave, on top of public holidays, as well as maternity, paternity and childcare leave… etc to accommodate your growing responsibilities
• A top tier & comprehensive medical, dental and vision policy for you and your dependents
• Professional development allowance to support your career advancement
• Access to our annual wellness benefits to cultivate your physical and mental growth
• Don’t forget the advantage of our Beyond Border Remote Working policy, where you get to work away from your home country
• Team building & offsite events to bring our global team closer
• Life insurance coverage to provide a safety net for your family’s future
• Option to choose to be paid in fiat or crypto currency, providing the flexibility to shape your financial freedom

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Does this sound like the type of working culture you can thrive in? Apply online now!