📝 DRAFT — DevOps at OpenLaw

About the Job

OpenLaw is a ConsenSys spoke that is building next-generation smart legal agreements. We’re using blockchain technology to reimagine the future of commerce and the $160 billion transactional legal market.

About Us

At its core, OpenLaw is a multi-module blockchain-based protocol and markup language to prepare, manage, and execute smart legal agreements. Using the OpenLaw protocol, you can seamlessly execute a range of commercial transactions by generating binding natural-language agreements, storing the signed contracts on a blockchain, and having those agreements interact with smart contracts written in code.

We use Scala as our main programming language with JavaScript / React for our frontend. Our backend uses LevelDB, and Ethereum to store, search, and verify data. We are product-driven and committed to open source. That means our end goal is to the deliver the best and fastest product possible for our users and to do so in a community-driven manner.

OpenLaw is looking for a passionate and collaborative DevOps Engineer to guarantee the safety of a soon-to-be launched cryptocurrency and blockchain-based application and that application’s backend infrastructure. This person will work on implementing securely tested solutions, and interface with our dev team and back end engineers on product builds and feature implementation. This role will span security, site reliability, scaling, and upgrades

Responsibilities:

Manage distribution of OpenLaw software upgrades for developers and everyday users

Keep our users happy by managing OpenLaw browser availability, scalability, and performance

Build tools for faster deployment schedules

Instate monitoring protocols and fail-over measures

Implement continuous testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of OpenLaw are met across backend services, blockchain infrastructure, and our frontend user clients

Deliver on rapid implementation schedules (without compromising on smart development goals and principles) to build web functionality that is functional, fast, and scalable

Desired Skills:

You are have worked in a large, highly available systems environment before, as well as an agile start-up. You are familiar with strategizing and improving for system security and availability.

Familiar with back-end languages and environments like IPFS, Elasticsearch, LevelDB, and Ethereum to store, search, and verify data.

Comfort across operating systems, with a strong Linux background

Ability to build and maintain highly available infrastructure

Competency in monitoring and quick response time

Passion for building the new internet for decentralized apps

Strong problem solving skills, ability to think fast and thoroughly

Commitment to securing infrastructure & willingness to learn what is needed to do so

Prior experience with a cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform is very helpful

Experience with containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) highly desirable

Experience scaling applications in the past or interest in learning more

Comfort working independently

Willingness to work occasional off-hours and on-call if necessary

KPIs:

Increased uptime of the OpenLaw software

Delivery of long term, securely tested software

Work to improve our failure processes, alerting, and emergency response times

Support our community developers to increase number and usability of OpenLaw

At OpenLaw you must balance passion for the technology while knowing when and how to focus the conversation on our users. At OpenLaw we enjoy an open and inclusive culture, competitive benefits, and the freedom to explore and experiment. We are always iterating and improving our work, the culture, and ourselves.

If you are someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment where being self-directed, determined, and resilient are a requirement, we would love for you to join us. Please feel free to join our Slack or check out our Medium page before applying.