Pioneering advancements in blockchain technology infrastructure, Blockstream is the leading company extending Bitcoin at the protocol level to support a broad range of new asset types and financial markets. Blockstream supports values of decentralization, privacy, end-to-end security, user control, and open, permissionless innovation.

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented software test engineer to improve the tools and processes we use to test our software and produce secure builds. We take security very seriously. This is not a peripheral role.

In this role, you will work with Blockstream’s software engineers, security experts, and cryptographers to extend our reputation as a world-class provider of secure, hardened systems.

Responsibilities:

• Improve test coverage, including unit tests, integration tests, load tests, and stress tests

• Build tools and processes to monitor test coverage and code quality

• Build infrastructure to consolidate and analyze log files

• Develop test harnesses, continuous integration hooks, and test automation infrastructure

• Develop testing and release processes that extend our brand reputation as a provider of secure, hardened systems

• Maintain and eventually rewrite our deterministic build processes and tools

• Develop tools to automate configuration and monitoring

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in software development or testing of complex, mission-critical, distributed systems

• Strong Linux systems administration skills

• Adversarial thinker who can anticipate potential bugs and security threats

• Strong scripting skills in more than one language (e.g. bash, Python)

• Ability to work well with a highly distributed team

• Exceptional attention to details

• Life-long learner who can grow into the role

Pluses:

• Experience with C, C++, Python, Rust is highly desirable

• Experience with Bitcoin or other major open source blockchain projects

• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e,g, Chef, Puppet, Ansible) to automate deployments and manage systems

• Experience with GitLab CI

• Expertise with complex build systems

• Experience with open-source or open-hardware projects

• Fintech experience

To apply:

• Please send your resume in WORD or PDF format to lilia@blockstream.io

• Place the text "Software Test / Release Engineer, Blockchain applications" in the subject line.