As a Technical Operations Engineer, you will maintain and optimize large-scale blockchain systems that power critical infrastructure. Your work will directly influence system uptime, performance, and resilience across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage blockchain networks, handling chain launches, upgrades, hard-forks, snapshots, and recovery procedures
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
- Operate Kubernetes clusters at scale, optimizing for safe rollouts, resource efficiency, and cost-effective capacity planning
- Lead incident management for high-severity outages, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
- Design and maintain observability systems using SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, and actionable alerting
- Develop and extend tooling for state management, replay testing, and production debugging, including contributions to upstream clients
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience with Linux and Kubernetes in production, particularly in networking, storage, and performance troubleshooting
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible
- Programming and scripting skills in Go, Python, or Bash for automation and tool development
- Hands-on experience running and tuning blockchain nodes, including JSON-RPC services and validator operations
- Familiarity with observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana, and experience defining meaningful service level objectives
- Solid understanding of networking concepts including DNS, TLS, load balancing, and routing protocols like BGP and anycast
Preferred Qualifications
- Production experience with blockchain clients such as Geth, Erigon, Nethermind, Besu, Cosmos SDK, Solana, or Substrate
- Experience managing multi-cloud environments with real-world cost and capacity modeling
- Track record of building or improving operational tooling in Go or Python
- Contributions to open-source blockchain software or upstream client fixes
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly and simplify system designs
Work Environment
This is a fully remote role with a global team and async-first culture. The organization operates on a follow-the-sun model, enabling continuous coverage and flexible scheduling. On-call practices are designed to be sustainable and respectful of work-life balance.
Compensation & Benefits
- Region-aligned base salary, with local market adjustments discussed during hiring
- Quarterly bonus based on company and individual performance
- Comprehensive benefits package tailored to local regulations and standards
- Inclusive, remote-first culture focused on growth, impact, and operational excellence
Company Culture
The team values impact over process, favoring speed and precision over bureaucracy. Engineers are empowered to own critical systems, drive improvements, and deepen expertise in distributed systems and blockchain protocols. Hiring and compensation are transparent and data-driven, with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
