Position: DevOps Engineer (Blockchain Infrastructure) Location: Remote Type: Full-time Working Hours: GMT+1 (flexible, with weekend availability for deployments)
About Us
We are a small decentralised AI infrastructure company. We source high-end GPUs, deploy them globally, and optimise them for mining protocols like Gonka, Gensyn, and Bittensor. https://obscuracompute.com/
What You’ll Do
- Following a protocol’s quickstart guide to deploy a new node type (example: Gonka Quickstart for Hosts)
- Deploy and maintain blockchain nodes and ML inference servers on high-end rented GPU hardware (H100, H200)
- Constantly optimise nodes for better performance and higher rewards
- Configure Docker containers, manage networking, and ensure security best practices
- Monitor node health, uptime, and earnings
- Automate deployments so we can scale from 10 to 100+ nodes
- Troubleshoot issues—whether it’s a Tendermint consensus failure or a CUDA version mismatch
- Handle cryptographic keys securely (wallets, validators, access keys
- Building a Telegram bot that alerts you when a node goes down or rewards are paid
- Creating a simple automation script that swaps tokens for stablecoins at a specific time each week
- Debugging why a new protocol version isn’t connecting to the network
The Reality of This Role
This is not a standard 9-to-5 DevOps job.
You’ll be working with emerging protocols where:
- Documentation changes constantly (Gonka is a perfect example)
- You’ll often need to figure things out before they’re clearly explained
- New protocols appear regularly and we need to explore them quickly
- Things break in unexpected ways and you need to adapt on the fly
The work itself is not intense during normal hours — it’s mostly monitoring, small tweaks, and continuous optimisation. But when something breaks or a new deployment is needed, you need to act fast.
Weekend availability is required because node deployments and protocol upgrades often happen outside business hours. You won’t be working 24/7, but you need to be online when deployments happen.
If you enjoy stable, predictable work with perfect documentation — this role is not for you.
If you like being early, figuring things out, and building infrastructure for technology that doesn’t fully exist yet — perfect.
What We’re Looking For
Must have:
- 3+ years in DevOps, SysAdmin, or infrastructure roles
- Strong Linux skills (Ubuntu/Debian)
- Docker & Docker Compose expert (you can write and debug compose files in your sleep)
- Basic networking: ports, firewalls, reverse proxies
- Scripting (Bash is essential; Python is a plus)
- Comfortable with ambiguity — you can figure things out when docs are incomplete
Desirable:
- Blockchain / crypto experience (running nodes, validators, or miners)
- Worked with GPU servers (NVIDIA drivers, CUDA)
- Used Ansible or similar for automation
- Familiar with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Knows what Tendermint/Cosmos SDK is
- Has run nodes for Gonka, Gensyn, Bittensor, or similar
Personal traits:
- Curious and resourceful — you enjoy the hunt for solutions
- Security-conscious (you don’t open ports you don’t need)
- Can work independently
- English enough to read technical docs and write basic messages (speaking not required)
Availability:
- Core working hours: GMT+1 (flexible)
- Must be available on weekends for node deployments when needed
- Node uptime is money — when something breaks, we fix it fast
Compensation
- Base salary: Competitive (paid in USD or UAH weekly)
- Performance bonus: Significant percentage of protocol profits — the better your optimisation, the more you earn
- High performers share directly in the upside
