Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Build and run Somnia's key backend services, including the L1 and node fleet, RPC and indexing layers, product backends and developer-facing services. Treat infrastructure as a product by automating operations, measuring reliability and improving platform standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs and error budgets
• Build observability across metrics, logs, traces and alerts
• Build repeatable self-service infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and golden paths
• Own progressive delivery, canaries, safe migrations and rollbacks
• Operate Somnia's nodes, validators, RPC and indexing systems while tuning performance and cost
• Lead incident response and on-call
• Run blameless postmortems and harden the platform
• Partner with product and protocol teams on production-ready services

Requirements

• Strong experience operating production infrastructure at scale with deep Linux fundamentals
• Experience with Terraform or Pulumi and configuration management
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong programming skills in Go and/or TypeScript
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability stacks
• Experience operating distributed systems, including capacity planning and performance tuning
• Comfort operating in high-stakes production environments and responding to incidents
• Genuine interest in crypto and on-chain systems
• Experience operating blockchain node infrastructure for an L1/L2
• Experience with high-performance networking, low-latency systems or load balancing
• Experience with multi-region deployments and failover strategies
• Experience with security, key management, HSMs, secrets management or hardening
• Knowledge of EVM tooling and the Web3 infrastructure ecosystem

Benefits

• Remote work
• Token incentives
• Competitive salary