Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer

** This is a full time / employment agreement (umowa o pracę) role only**

**Candidate must be located and have work authorization in Poland**

Who We Are

We are a trusted, institutional crypto asset technology team that delivers leading data and software products to address the most complex data challenges. We build SaaS and DaaS solutions to convert crypto asset data into auditable information to support portfolio management, sub-ledger, risk, analytical and other financial reporting. Our products automate and optimize crypto asset data management for all businesses, including but not limited to funds, fund administrators, OTC and proprietary trading desks, exchanges, miners, protocols and accounting firms - and we are proud to call some of the largest crypto businesses and financial institutions our customers.

Position Summary

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer Lead

What You’ll Do

• Work in a team of 5-6 DevOps Engineers, a cohesive group of Engineers in a global setup.
• Report to the Head of Infrastructure on implementing the long-term product roadmap and infrastructure modernization, supporting successful releases, managing resources, and providing technology solutions to a varied group of engineers.
• Provide structure to Dev teams managing Big Data, Kubernetes, serverless architecture, and build automation.
• Be able to write and build automation, production support escalation, emergency hotfix support, and make consequential decisions under pressure.
• Help support the teams of DevOps and Dev engineers.
• Work closely with data of various forms (structured and unstructured), blockchain data, pricing data, crypto asset data and be able to support the most efficient technology approaches for ingesting, managing, distributing, and securing data.
• Work with the team on maturing development practices, assisting with technical initiatives, and contributing to the long-term vision of the wider Engineering department.

What You'll Need:

• 7-10 years of work experience building, scaling and maintaining production services, and understanding of how to compose a microservice or serverless architecture.
• 2+ years of experience architecting and designing distributed systems, with deep knowledge of how such systems are maximized for performance, availability and fault tolerance, and properly instrumented for monitoring health and readiness.
• A university degree, ideally in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent commercial experience.
• Good understanding of various communication protocols, particularly REST and gRPC.
• Good understanding of asynchronous event processing.
• Must have RDBMS familiarity, with real experience with database design and queries.
• Ability to build system architecture and make judgments with recommendations regarding technology solutions- Terraform experience expected.
• Solid background in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab preferred).
• Strong background in Cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS. Kubernetes and Terraform experience is required. 
• Working knowledge of various SDLC methodologies, including Agile.
• Excellent communication skills, team-first mentality, mission-oriented, humble, positive attitude, great composure under pressure. 
• A hands-on, thought leader.
• Deep background working in partnership with other teams within the organizations such as Product, Operations, Support, and Development.

Why Join Lukka?

Are you looking for a challenge? Lukka solves the most complex data and technology challenges for an industry that is at the forefront of innovation.

At Lukka, we strive to anticipate and respond to the needs of this new and ever-changing ecosystem of digital assets. That was true in 2014, while everyone was focused on trading & buying this new asset class, we were thinking about the tax implications of crypto. That innovative foresight continues today as we evolve and iterate on our product suite to address the regulations and educate our customers.

We are looking for passionate, collaborative, and strategic individuals who want to help shape the future of, well, everything – starting with making crypto more accountable. We invest in our teammates, promote from within & are responsible to each other by fostering an inclusive space for curious minds to thrive and innovate.

What’s life @ Lukka like? 

We move fast and continue to be ahead of the curve. You could be part of a growing company bridging the gap between business and blockchain. 

Here’s some insight into why our team members have joined:

• Ability to own the projects they work on 
• Less red-tape to take ideas from inception to delivery
• Being at the forefront of an industry
• Small team, big dreams

Of course, let’s discuss some perks:

• Competitive salary, including equity in the company, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
• Private healthcare (Medicover) and co-financed sports card (Multisport).
• We work in a rapidly growing industry and we need to also constantly grow. We can’t stay ahead of the curve if we aren’t learning. Every employee is given an annual learning allowance and encouraged to use it
• Hard work is rewarded at Lukka. Our recognition programs are designed with you in mind – we provide free crypto to all new employees for learning purposes
• Remote international team - you’ll join a team of experts in their domains, influencing the booming industry. We are a remote-first company, however in case you'd like to work in an office setting, we have an office in Warsaw too!
• Employment agreement -We want you for the long haul. We’re a team on a mission and we want you to grow your career with us. Promoting from within is not just something we say, but something we do

So you’ve scrolled, your interest is piqued and hopefully read all of the important things...now what? 

This is an exciting time to join a team that’s at the forefront of this rapidly growing industry. We are looking for people who constantly push themselves to think differently, are ready to face new challenges and chart exciting new paths. If this excites you, apply now!