Staff DevOps Engineer
You'll work within a fast-paced engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the blockchain infrastructure that powers a developer platform used globally. You'll operate systems for running blockchain RPC nodes at scale across many chains and regions, keeping a highly available live system running for customers. You'll deploy and maintain nodes, manage Kubernetes clusters, perform upgrades and hard fork migrations, participate in on-call rotations, build automation tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally on capacity planning and SLO reporting.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and geographic regions.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters underlying the blockchain node platform.
- Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for blockchain clients across EVM and non-EVM chains.
- Operate on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution across teams.
- Develop and maintain AI agents and automation tooling for health checks, auto-heal, and hard fork notifications.
- Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows using Helm charts.
- Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement.
- Respond to security advisories and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Contribute to postmortems and async review processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets, and service mesh.
- Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience with GitOps tooling including ArgoCD and Helm.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal management, including storage provisioning and snapshots.
- Strong grasp of Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager observability tooling.
- Comfort working in an on-call environment and triaging production incidents.
- Ability to write technical documentation and postmortems and contribute to async-first communication.
- Experience with networking and VPC networks.
- Basic understanding of security best practices.
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3.
Benefits
- Flexible time away
- Private Medical Insurance
- Internal off-site hackathons
- Access to a company-rented hacker house during summer
- Opportunity to travel across offices
- Attractive salary package
- Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies