Platform Engineer

About Luxor

Luxor is the leading software and services provider for Bitcoin miners and the broader compute industry. Our full-stack platform supports gigawatts of compute infrastructure, giving operators the tools to monetize their compute, optimize and trade hardware, access financial instruments, and manage energy.

We believe that compute power is becoming the world’s next major commodity and our products are built to support this shift. Our goal is to become the leaders in harnessing, refining, and trading compute, unlocking a new asset class for the world’s most important digital resource.

As Luxor continues to scale rapidly across software, hardware, financial, energy and cloud infrastructure products, every team member has the opportunity to shape mission-critical systems, influence company-wide strategy, and contribute directly to the future of the compute economy.

Role description

You will develop the technical design for either cloud or on-premises solutions. Also, influence designs across R&D using original research and advanced analysis. You’ll design solutions for business critical and highly complex engineering projects by applying extensive domain expertise in performance testing. You’ll provide oversight of code and design reviews, and ensure features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements.

Our teams own mission-critical aspects of a rapidly growing, globally distributed platform (eg: Hashrate Marketplace and 15 unique mining pools), in the cloud, and, as such, you will have an incredible amount of impact on the current state and future direction of our product, with visibility throughout the organization and a significant opportunity to take ownership.

This role will report directly to the Head of Devops. This is a remote role. The ideal candidate is based between UTC-8 and UTC-3 timezones.

Requirements

• Expert in technologies like Kubernetes & Docker deploying to and orchestrating containers in production environments (Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh and related technologies).

• Experience with Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), CI/CD pipelines (Git, Github Actions, etc), configuration management tools and GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD, etc).

• Working understanding of TCP/IP network stack, DNS, SSL/ TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.

• Experience with building and managing observability (Metrics, Logging, and Tracing).

• Deep understanding of programming and experience with at least one programming language.

• 4+ years of working experience in relevant DevOps field.

• 1+ years of software development.

• Experience with cloud platform services and tooling (GCP, and on-premises).

• Experience with agile development methodology.

• Experience delivering and owning web-scale pipelines systems in production.

• Bonus: interest and experience in virtualization technologies (Openstack, Harvester, KVM, Firecracker, Kata containers, cloud-hypervisor)

• English language proficiency.

The ideal candidate

• Passionate about cryptocurrency and public-blockchain technologies.

• Has an interest in creating an entirely new market with Hashrate (compute power) as a commodity.

• Has an interest in cloud computing.

• Has an interest in thinking and evolving the architecture of our software to make it robust and maintainable.

• Enjoys writing code and pushing boundaries of what has been done so far.

• Brings fun to the team but can also go down the rabbit hole to push quality code on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and deploy native cloud clusters of dozens of blockchain daemons in a scalable, highly available and redundant manner.

• Operate and maintain several environments running in Kubernetes and virtual machines.

• Monitor proactively for performance bottlenecks and unusual behavior to prevent application outages.

• Write good quality policies, procedures and technical documentation.

• Follow security best-practices and foster security guidelines within the organization.

• Collaborate on architecture definitions, always thinking of solutions that are scalable and secure.

• Participate in ensuring compliance on system and organization controls.

• Participate in the process of generating and analyzing features.

• Navigate around open-source software to investigate and debug issues affecting our services.

At Luxor we believe that meaningful contributions can be made by anyone. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Luxor welcomes all!

Luxor does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Luxor will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Luxor.

How we use AI in our hiring process

We use AI tools to support certain parts of our hiring process, and we believe in being transparent about how they’re used.

During your application, AI may assist in reviewing CVs, qualifications, and assignments by providing additional insights, but it does not make decisions, every application is evaluated at each step by a member of our hiring team.

We also use AI to transcribe interviews so our team can stay focused on the conversation rather than note-taking. Any voice recordings are automatically deleted within 15 days.

In addition, AI helps us keep candidates informed about their application status and helps us understand how our process is working so we can improve it over time.

In all cases, AI is used to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. If you have any questions about how we use these tools or your data, or if you would prefer to opt out of any of these features, please include them in the dedicated section of the application form, and we’ll follow up accordingly.