Staff Devops Engineer jobs at Fireblocks in Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo

In the Security Engineering Unit at Fireblocks, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core components that are crucial to the security of the platform and clients.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Backend development, with a strong background in architecting and building complex & large web applications.
• Experience working wit NodeJS and Typescript.
• A deep understanding of the cybersecurity world (Attack & Defense) - big advantage
• Experience with blockchain or cryptography - big advantage

The DevOps group is structured in a flat structure of 15 engineers, designating each DevOps engineer to a specific group of RND.

Each DevOps engineer is the DevOps leader for that group. They serve as the point of contact for any project, taking part in the system designs and implementing any needed change.

Each DevOps engineer is also responsible for a “DevOps project” - an infrastructure project aimed to bring upon new capabilities and improvements to our system.

What You’ll Do

As a Devops Staff Engineer, you will not be assigned a specific R&D group, but will serve as a focal point for the DevOps engineers, to help and support with any issue.

You’ll be leading projects that cross DevOps, push forward technical discussions and interact with each DevOps engineer as needed to solve diverse complex problems of high scale.

You’ll support multi-region environments, build and maintain tools for automation, deployment, monitoring, and operations.

You’ll troubleshoot and resolve issues in our various environments.

You’ll play a key role in designing and enforcing infrastructure patterns that support zero-downtime deployments, high resilience, and compliance standards.

You’ll conduct periodic on-call duties and emergency response.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in the industry, including 6+ years of hands-on experience in high-scale SaaS companies or zero-downtime/disaster recovery enterprise environments (e.g., banking, cybersecurity, healthcare, or large-scale cloud platform providers).
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles across a minimum of 2 different companies, with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes and AWS. Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures is a strong plus.
• Experience with on-call duties to manage critical infrastructure and application issues outside business hours, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI , or similar.
• 2+ years of experience with programming languages such as Python or TypeScript . Strong Linux administration skills, including debugging and Bash scripting.
• 2+ years of experience with Terraform (experience with Terragrunt is a plus), as well as GitOps systems such as ArgoCD.
• 2+ years of experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, and monitoring and alerting systems such as Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or Grafana.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including VPC, service meshes, routing, DNS, TLS, and firewalls.
• Production-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership over reliability, scalability, and incident response.

What You'll Do

As part of your role, you will be developing new features for the Fireblocks Payments engine, working closely with our Product and Design teams.

You will work with a variety of web development technologies while utilizing continuous development and fully automated testing coverage.

As a senior developer you’ll be responsible for creating technical designs, mentoring and setting development standards for your team members.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role (both BE and FE)
• participated in building e2e systems optimized for scale
• advantage: React, node
• at least 2 years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science

What You'll Do

• Lead the backend development of the new Fireblocks mobile application.
• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance microservices that support low-latency and high-throughput operations.
• Develop and optimize Fireblocks' mobile API to ensure a seamless and scalable experience for our mobile users.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design systems that meet operational and business goals.
• Research and implement cloud-native architectures to support Fireblocks’ ongoing growth and scalability.

What You'll Bring

• At least 7 years of experience in backend development, with a focus on scalable infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of system design principles, distributed systems, and scalability.
• Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript; experience with other backend languages is an advantage.
• Expertise in both relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Proven track record of designing and deploying microservices-based architectures in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with monitoring and logging frameworks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Deep understanding of REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot production issues effectively.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and excel in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do:

• Design and build data processing systems using Apache Spark for our "Pipeline as a Service" product.
• Create and maintain data lake architectures and NoSQL database solutions.
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS services (particularly EKS).
• Provide expert data infrastructure support to R&D teams.
• Ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability of big data systems.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience as a Big Data Engineer.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Java/Scala.
• 3+ years of experience with Apache Spark (development & optimization).
• Experience with both batch and streaming data processing paradigms.
• Deep knowledge of data architecture (data lakes, NoSQL, and relational databases).
• Expertise with AWS services and infrastructure.
• Experience with container orchestration in Kubernetes, specifically EKS.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to support technical teams.

What You'll Do:

• Creating and deploying core software infrastructure components at scale.
• Maintaining and enhancing our internal Python and Typescript frameworks, tools, and platforms essential for product engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Introducing self-service deployment capabilities to empower R&D teams.
• Advocating for and enforcing standards and best practices.
• Leading and educating through knowledge sharing via documentation, knowledge-base articles, blogs, forums and presentations.
• Addressing complex production issues and developing long-term solutions.
• Contributing to the engineering and standardization of our CI/CD infrastructure.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the targeted availability, reliability, scalability, throughput and performance of our infrastructure while adhering to industry best practices and standards.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience working as a backend engineer with a focus on infrastructure development.
• Proficiency in NodeJS/Python, with a strong understanding of their respective ecosystems and best practices.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable infrastructure components in a production environment.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) and experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Experience with blockchain or cryptocurrency - Advantage.
• Experience with NestJS - Advantage.