Site Reliability Engineering Blockchain
Bithumb helps users trade cryptocurrencies with Korean won through a centralized spot exchange with staking and lending services.
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About Bithumb
Bithumb is a cryptocurrency exchange platform serving South Korean and international traders with spot trading across multiple digital assets paired primarily with Korean Won. The platform provides trading tools including automated bots and API access, alongside payment services through Bithumb Cash that enable cryptocurrency transactions at retail merchants and e-commerce platforms. Users can generate passive income through staking programs and a coin rental service. Originally launched as Xcoin in 2014 and rebranded to Bithumb in 2015, the exchange operates as a licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider under South Korean financial regulators.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will establish SRE standards for blockchain services and infrastructure. You will define SLI and SLO policies, operate incident response processes, improve observability and reliability metrics, manage deployment safeguards and capacity planning, design highly available node and RPC infrastructure, and help engineers adopt effective reliability practices.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in SRE platform engineering or operations engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience designing and implementing SLI SLO error budget on-call and postmortem systems
- Quantifiable achievements defining and improving MTTA MTTR availability deployment frequency and change failure rate metrics
- Communication skills to explain trade-offs between reliability speed and cost and build consensus
- Experience leading the technical growth of fellow engineers
- Experience introducing operational standards across multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes migration and GitOps-based deployment systems
- SRE experience in high-integrity domains such as finance or payments
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service platforms
- Experience integrating LLM or AI tools into incident response and operational workflows
Responsibilities
- Define SLI and SLO policies and error budgets for blockchain services
- Design and operate on-call escalation and postmortem processes
- Improve Datadog-based observability
- Set and improve targets for MTTA MTTR and availability
- Define reliability standards for AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
- Design highly available blockchain node and RPC infrastructure
- Develop SRE capabilities among engineers
Benefits
- Overtime compensation paid by the minute
- Flexible start and finish times
- Welfare points
- Commuting transportation support for night or holiday work
- Breakfast lunch and dinner support
- Unlimited snacks and beverages
- Housing loan interest or rent support
- Childcare cost support for preschool children
- Holiday and Parents Day gifts
- Job-related education support
- Foreign language education support
- Unlimited purchase of work-related books
- Premium health screenings for employees and family members
- Group accident insurance
- Support for employee club activities
- Resort and condominium accommodation support
Hiring Process
Application review > first practical interview > second culture-fit interview > final offer. A pre-test may be conducted, and reference checks may follow a successful interview.
