Incident Response Engineer (Pacific time)

Job Application for Incident Response Engineer (Pacific time) at Fireblocks New Incident Response Engineer (Pacific time) United States Apply The world of digital assets is accelerating in speed, magnitude, and complexity, opening the door to new ways for leveraging the blockchain. Fireblocks’ platform and network provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more.

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the team The SRE Incident Response team is responsible for handling critical application\infrastructure alerts, orchestrating the war room process and enabling first class observability and alerting systems. Team members are located in several international locations (“follow the sun” model) to provide 24/7 availability. We are a team of unique individuals, experienced and independent, who get things done. On-call coverage is 7 days a week, starting at noon, with the shift ending at 6:00pm. This position is fully remote, candidates required to be in US Pacific time.

What You'll Do As part of your role, you would improve and establish new monitoring, alerting, and observability of services using a wide range of tools. Additionally, you would handle critical alerts and incidents and work directly with engineering and DevOps to improve and optimize availability. Manage and participate in incident war rooms, escalating and coordinating response for critical workflow alerts. Perform deep-dive troubleshooting for application, transaction, and general technical issues. Research Fireblocks blockchain workflows, identify optimization opportunities, issues, and improve monitoring. Help identify root causes for incidents and prevent them from happening again. Solve and orchestrate outages by working with multiple teams. Improve and establish alerting for our infrastructure, services, and business logic Work closely with the R&D and Support: offering education and guidance on integration, support, and monitoring across the toolset Communicate and escalate issues to senior management in R&D and support, write RCAs, and define next steps. Document actions in runbooks and then into automation using Python, Lambda, shell scripts, ArgoCD, and Ansible. Focus on the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, and monitoring What You'll Bring At least 3+ years of experience as an SRE incident response engineer You are curious, self-motivated, easy to work with, responsible, and production-aware—fast learner and able to take a project from POC to production, while handling decision-making and communication. Experience with Coding languages - Python/JavaScript/Bash (Must) At least 3+ years of experience with Alerting & Monitoring systems such as DataDog, Coralogix / Splunk / New Relic / Prometheus Experience working with Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond Cloud systems such as AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm SCM - Git/bitbucket/ gitlab High Analytical & Troubleshooting skills - ability to solve complex problems Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative mindset Want to stand out from the crowd? Previous experience in cryptocurrencies \ blockchains - a big advantage In-depth knowledge in: Linux optimization, nginx, ArgoCD, DataDog, MySQL Previous experience as a C++ or Node developer BSC in Computer Science or related technical certifications For employees hired to work remotely from New York, or from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the