Hiro
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Job Summary
Hiro is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 5 years of experience in roles such as SRE or DevOps. The role focuses on improving tooling, automation, and operational standards for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring software and services, with an emphasis on security and reliability. The engineer will work closely with engineering teams to support scalable infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, and implement best practices. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package and an inclusive, collaborative work environment.
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Job Description
At Hiro, we’re making it easier for developers to build the next generation of smart contracts and decentralized apps. We build developer tools for Stacks, an open-source network which makes Bitcoin programmable. With Hiro, developers can test and deploy smart contracts, spin up nodes and other server-side resources for scaling, and get access to monitoring and analytics. Our solutions provide developers with the convenience and reliability they need to be successful.
Hiro is funded and backed by more than $75 million from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, and others.
About the Opportunity
Hiro is seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer to join our collaborative team! If you’re passionate about building scalable infrastructure and creating tools that empower developers, this role is for you. Our team values genuine care for each other, the company, and the Stacks ecosystem, fostering a culture of support and mutual respect.
As a DevOps Engineer at Hiro, you’ll combine systems and software engineering to drive two key goals:
- Enabling teams to build, test, deploy, and monitor services that impact hundreds of thousands of users, and soon, millions, with speed, quality, and reliability.
- Reducing repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows across engineering, IT, and other operations.
In this role, you'll work alongside talented colleagues who are committed to learning, innovation, and continuous improvement. Join us in creating solutions that make a real difference for developers, users, and the future of the Stacks ecosystem!
What You’ll Do:
- Improve the tooling and automation for building, testing, and deploying software and services
- Collaborate with engineering teams on building and launching new products and features
- Evangelize and implement industry best practices to improve the security and ease-of-use of our production environment
- Diagnose problems from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Improve operational standards, tooling, and processes
- Engineer solutions to automate, and streamline monitoring and incident escalation, improve resiliency and uptime
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or similar role
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working with a diverse team across time zones
- A sense of ownership, humility, and bias to action
- Able to see a problem from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions
- Proficiency with container technologies like Docker, Containered, rkt, etc., Linux, scripting & automation
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, e.g., Deployments, Services, Persistent Volumes, ConfigMaps
- Proven experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production systems
- Competence in working with public cloud infrastructure such as GCP, Azure, and/or AWS
We’d Also Like to See:
- Familiarity with running blockchain software (bitcoin, ethereum etc)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes security and monitoring practices
- Experience with multiple technology stacks for configuration, monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD, application runtimes (Python, Node, Rust)
- Experience with caching and database solutions (e.g. Redis, Postgres)
- Experience with logging, tracing, proxy, and monitoring dashboard tools such as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus
- Experience with various network protocols, such as SSL and DNS
We’d love to hear from you even if you don’t have experience or interest in every bullet.
What We'll Offer
- Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $150,000 - $195,000.
- Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network
- $1,200/yr budget for learning and development stipend
- $1000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing
- $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
- Daily Lunch Reimbursement (even if you’re remote!)
- Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
- Family-Friendly Health Benefits
- Free Life and Disability Insurance
- Health and dependent care(FSA)
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401k with 3% match
Please note that benefits vary by country, the ones shown above are for our full time U.S. based employees. Benefit information for non-US based positions will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles.
Hiro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and deeply cares about building a diverse team. Hiro is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.
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