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Site Reliability Engineering Manager

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Summary

Leads and develops a team of site reliability engineers at LayerZero, owning reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure — SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, on-call, and postmortems — while driving infrastructure-as-code with Kubernetes and Helm. Requires 6+ years SRE/DevOps experience and 2+ years managing a technical team.

You will lead and develop a team of site reliability engineers, setting technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations. You will own reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure, including service-level objectives, capacity planning, and incident response. You will improve infrastructure-as-code practices, on-call operations, automated detection and triage, and postmortem practices. You will also review designs, investigate critical incidents, and guide architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of SREs
  • Set technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations
  • Own the reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure
  • Define SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response
  • Align reliability investments with business priorities
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Kubernetes and Helm
  • Improve on-call structure, incident detection and triage automation, and postmortem culture
  • Review designs, investigate complex incidents, and set technical standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience
  • 2+ years of directly managing or leading a technical team
  • Deep familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure, including validator, full, and archive nodes and RPC optimization
  • Proficiency in TypeScript or Golang
  • Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and distributed systems or high-availability design
  • 3+ years running Kubernetes in production, including Helm chart authoring at scale
  • Experience building or scaling an on-call and incident response process
  • Excellent communication skills

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