Senior SRE Engineer (Decentralized systems)

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, deployment, and operational excellence of our decentralized network.

You will be responsible for ensuring that our infrastructure and protocol operate reliably in production, working closely with both the developer team and external node operators.

Why join?

• Work on a real-world decentralized system
• Help define and evolve SRE practices from the ground up
• Work in a startup environment with a flexible, open culture that prioritizes autonomy, initiative, and ownership
• Solve challenges across heterogeneous, externally managed infrastructure (node operators)
• No micromanagement
• Remote-first with flexible hours and PTO
• All code is open source

Responsibilities

• Own deployment pipelines across environments (dev → production)
• Build and maintain an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, logs, tracing)
• Define and manage SLIs / SLOs
• Work directly with node operators to debug issues and ensure network uptime and consistency
• Participate in and improve on-call rotations and incident response processes
• Investigate incidents, lead response, and write clear postmortems
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
• Continuously reduce operational toil through automation and system improvements
• Collaborate with protocol/backend engineers to improve production readiness

Key Requirements

Experience

• 4+ years as SRE / DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Strong knowledge of:

• Kubernetes (production-grade)
• Docker/containerization
• Terraform (or other IaC tools)
• Cloud platforms (preferably GCP)

Observability:

• Prometheus
• Grafana

Systems:

• Monitoring and alerting systems
• High-availability systems

Engineering:

• Ability to write scripts/tools in JS/TS, Bash, Python (Rust is a plus)
• Experience managing production incidents and on-call rotations

Communication:

• Strong communication skills (you’ll work with external operators)

Nice to have

• Experience with blockchain/decentralized systems
• Experience working with validators/node operators
• Familiarity with:
  • OpenTelemetry
  • CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Experience building internal infrastructure tooling
• Background in security and production hardening

Culture / Expectations

• Self-driven, proactive, and ownership-oriented
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity (startup environment)
• Strong bias toward automation over manual processes
• Focus on reliability, simplicity, and clarity

Join us in building and operating a decentralized network where reliability depends not only on code, but on how systems behave in the real world.