Infrastructure Engineer (Staking)
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You will architect, deploy, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks. You will manage cloud and bare-metal environments, automate builds and deployments, implement observability and incident response practices, perform key management and slashing mitigation, and optimize rewards. You will participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, document operational procedures, and collaborate with node developers and the broader community to resolve issues and scale infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and monitor globally distributed blockchain validator infrastructure across multiple ecosystems
- Own infrastructure and services, performing upgrades, key management, slashing mitigation, and reward optimization
- Implement automation for builds, deployments, and observability
- Design, implement, and document infrastructure operation procedures
- Participate in on-call rotation and respond to incidents to ensure high uptime and performance
- Support node development teams to resolve operational issues
- Collaborate with the community to expand and scale staking infrastructure
Requirements
- Hands-on experience architecting and operating blockchain nodes including RPC and validator nodes and securing validator keys
- Practical proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Rust, or Python
- Experience with modern Infrastructure as Code tools and CI/CD best practices
- At least 2+ years of experience working in Web3 with understanding of decentralization and infrastructure diversification
- At least 3+ years of experience managing resources in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with bare-metal cloud providers (e.g., Hetzner, OVH, Contabo or similar)
- Experience implementing observability and incident response best practices
- Experience administering and maintaining Linux hosts
- Excellent communication skills and ability to document technical details
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a remote setting
Benefits
- Remote-first work
- Flexible work hours