Senior DevOps Engineer
BabylonChain
Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Oct 10, 2025
About You
You are a DevOps engineer who is highly adaptable and thrives on wearing many hats. You love learning from others, as well as helping them out. You are a team player, direct and open-minded. You strive to deliver, have high work standards and are a responsible individual.
What You’ll Do
You’ll be wearing many hats, doing a fusion of DevOps, Site Reliability and Platform engineering. Your responsibilities include:
- Own the onboarding process of services to production infrastructure, including:
- Producing Proof of Concepts for the deployment of blockchain networks and dApps
- Identifying hosting needs and rightsizing infrastructure for high availability
- Planning and executing performance benchmarking strategies and load-testing to identify bottlenecks
- Owning CDN caching, DNS and security configuration to achieve low latency
- Strive for high uptime and swift incident resolution for live services:
- Set up fine-grained monitoring and alerting rules
- Enforce thoroughly tested disaster recovery procedures
- Lead incident response procedures by being part of the DevOps on-call rotation scheme
- Operate scalable Kubernetes clusters and several in-house platform offerings, including:
- Bitcoin, Cosmos SDK, ETH and ZK blockchain infrastructure
- Databases (Redis, MongoDB, MariaDB) and queuing systems (RabbitMQ)
- Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Loki, Promtail, Sentry)
- Collaborate closely with other teams to drive bug identification and resolution, as well as advocate for the adoption of production-ready practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in operating secure Cosmos SDK and Bitcoin infrastructure
- It's a big plus for candidates to have production-grade experience on Ethereum, Solidity smart contracts and Zero Knowledge systems.
- 2+ years of experience in operating highly available containerized web application systems on Kubernetes (web-3 native systems are a plus)
- Strong Top-3 cloud management experience (AWS preferred)
- Experience in Kubernetes application packaging (Helm Charts) and deployment (fluxcd, GitHub Actions)
- Proficiency in Linux management and scripting
- Experience in Terraform scripting
- Experience in operating open-source observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
- Ability to manage competing priorities and respond swiftly to incidents
- Fluent oral and written communication in English