Staff DevOps Engineer

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.
• Participate in on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution for node outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches.
• Develop and maintain AI agents and automation tooling for health checks, auto-healing, and hard fork notifications.
• Deploy and manage services using ArgoCD and GitOps workflows with Helm charts.
• Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement.
• Respond promptly to security advisories and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Contribute to postmortems and asynchronous review processes; track action items and follow up on resolutions.
• Collaborate with product, customer success, and engineering teams 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 technologies such as Istio.
• Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, 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 snapshot management.
• Strong understanding of observability tooling, including Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager, with experience building or tuning dashboards and alert rules.
• Comfort working in an on-call environment and triaging production incidents using PagerDuty and structured runbooks.
• Ability to write technical documentation and postmortems and contribute to asynchronous team communication.
• Experience with networking and configuring or managing VPC networks.
• Basic understanding of security best practices.
• Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio.
• Good understanding of web applications and microservice architecture.
• Experience working with startups.

Compensation and Benefits

• Attractive salary package.
• Private medical insurance.
• Flexible time away.
• Internal off-site hackathons.
• Access to a company-rented hacker house during summer.
• Opportunities to travel across offices.