Blockchain Node Operator & Site Reliability Engineer
You will be responsible for maintaining full nodes for various blockchains, finding efficient ways to deploy and manage them. You'll dive deep into blockchain-specific monitoring, helping the team cut down on noise by fine-tuning alerts. You'll troubleshoot production issues to address technical commitments and boost sustainability, and pair with other engineers to deploy new services, increase developer velocity, and eliminate pain points.
Responsibilities
- Maintain full nodes for various blockchains and find ways to deploy and manage them more efficiently
- Fine-tune alerts and reduce monitoring noise
- Troubleshoot production issues to address technical commitments and boost sustainability
- Pair with other engineers to troubleshoot and deploy new services
- Increase developer velocity and eliminate pain points
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in operations and infrastructure
- Strong expertise with Linux command line, shell scripting (especially Bash), and automation of operational workflows
- Solid background in IT security and operational security (OpSec)
- Deep experience with monitoring, log analysis, and alerting tools
- Experience with scripting and configuration management
- Practical knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Helm Charts, Gitlab (CI/CD optional), and scripting languages such as Python
- Proficiency in infrastructure automation, containerization, bare-metal server management, and cloud computing (with a strong focus on GCP)
- Proficiency in blockchain technologies including Chainlink and/or Pyth, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Lido, SupraOracles
- Experience leveraging AI-driven automation, including agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Experience running blockchain full nodes preferred
- Setup and management of Kubernetes clusters preferred
- Know-how in exporting metrics via Prometheus and building Grafana dashboards preferred
- Excellent experience with GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure
- Experience in the financial services and/or capital market domain preferred
- Very good English skills
- Ideally located in Central Europe (CET timezone) or within ±2 hours
Benefits
- Work up to 100% remotely or enjoy the office in Frankfurt's financial district
- Temporary work from abroad, allowing you to work up to 6 months a year from anywhere in the world
- Continuous and qualitatively unique further training is supported
- Excellent infrastructure and benefits (Apple equipment, gym classes, etc.)
- Employee Stock Ownership program