Site Reliability Engineer ( Crypto Platform Infrastructure)
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Our client is an operations partner for high-volume, high-scale platforms in the crypto industry. They run operations end-to-end for clients: systems, infrastructure, people, process, uptime, and execution.
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Overview
- Our client is an operations partner for high-volume, high-scale platforms in the crypto industry.
- They run operations end-to-end for clients: systems, infrastructure, people, process, uptime, and execution.
- They are looking to hire a site Reliability Engineer to take ownership of the backend pipeline powering one of their client platforms.
- The architecture is live next month.
- The stack works, but it has not yet been battle-tested under production traffic, real failure conditions, or scale.
- Your role is to harden the platform before those moments arrive.
- You will own reliability across the full pipeline:
- on-chain ingestion
- indexers
- streaming systems
- PostgreSQL
- caches
- WebSocket infrastructure
- frontend delivery paths
- This is a high-accountability role with real authority.
- You will make infrastructure decisions, drive operational standards, and build the systems that keep the platform online under pressure.
What You’ll Do
- Own the reliability of the full backend pipeline
- Eliminate critical single points of failure
- Design scalable architecture decisions
- Build monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks
- Create and lead the on-call process
- Run stress testing, failover testing, and recovery drills
- Improve latency, throughput, and operational visibility
- Manage infrastructure cost and capacity planning
- Own backup and disaster recovery strategy
- Report operational risks and health directly to leadership
Required
- Strong production SRE / infrastructure experience
- Deep PostgreSQL operational expertise
- Experience with Kafka, Redpanda, NATS, or similar streaming systems
- Strong Linux and cloud infrastructure knowledge
- Ability to debug and ship code in Rust or TypeScript
- Experience operating high-throughput or low-latency systems
- Strong written communication and operational judgment
- Nice to Have
- Crypto infrastructure experience
- Solana or Ethereum indexing systems
- TimescaleDB or ClickHouse
- Early-stage startup infrastructure ownership
- Experience building incident response and postmortem culture
What They Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Hybrid working flexibility
- Direct access to founders and technical leadership
- High-impact ownership
- Exposure to large-scale crypto infrastructure
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Generous Holidays
- If you’re the kind of engineer who notices the weak point before it fails, we want to speak with you.
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