Remote Crypto Production Engineer - Blockchain Infrastructure
About the Role
Join the Wormhole Foundation as a Remote Crypto Production Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing the reliability and security of our blockchain interoperability technologies. This position is crucial for ensuring that our services maintain a minimum uptime of 99.99%, excluding scheduled maintenance. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and validator partners to optimize our production infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Act as the first responder and incident commander during production incidents.
- Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and retrospective documentation.
- Build detailed incident timelines and preventative runbooks.
- Respond to incidents related to performance issues, CCQ failures, and observability pipeline outages.
- Deliver remediation recommendations and implement approved fixes to improve reliability.
- Strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting systems.
- Harden infrastructure for security and operational resiliency.
- Enhance deployment workflows and reduce operational friction.
- Support operational tooling used by engineering, DevOps, and validator partners.
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelor's/master's) and/or relevant experience in production engineering.
- Experience with incident response and operational excellence in a blockchain environment.
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tools.
- Proficiency in deployment workflows and incident management.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience in blockchain technologies and decentralized systems.
- Familiarity with security best practices in production environments.
- Knowledge of operational tooling and DevOps practices.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary ranging from $120,000 to $150,000 annually.
- Fully remote work environment with flexible hours.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Collaborative and innovative team culture.
- Support for continuous learning and skill enhancement.
This Remote Crypto Production Engineer position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge blockchain technology while ensuring operational excellence.
Who Will Succeed Here
Proficient in blockchain technologies such as Ethereum and Solana, with hands-on experience in deploying smart contracts and managing nodes in a production environment.
Strong familiarity with observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana, coupled with a proactive mindset to quickly respond to incidents and maintain system uptime.
Experienced in using deployment workflows with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions, demonstrating the ability to automate processes and enhance infrastructure efficiency in a remote setting.
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