Senior DevOps Engineer

The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders who are on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralized tech. We believe that the Monad https://monad.xyz/ blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep Linux expertise and a strong track record of building infrastructure and testing automation from scratch. You'll join a small, talented team of systems experts to extend the testing, tooling, and operational backbone of a high-performance, next-generation Layer 1 blockchain.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Build and maintain testnets and test automation for components of the Monad blockchain

- Prototype new deployment patterns across validator and full-node topologies

- Design and run performance benchmarks and load tests to surface bottlenecks before they reach production

- Drive observability, alerting, and security across the stack

- Define best practices for node operators & support them

- Develop tooling for internal & external use

- Participate in on-call rotation for production support

WHO YOU ARE

- 2+ years of DevOps experience at a professional RPC provider / professional validator company / L1 blockchain

- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (Terraform, Ansible)

- 2+ years of experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Proficient in bare metal server management and scripting

- Proficient in at least one back-end language such as Python or Go

- Hands-on experience running highly available containerized systems on Kubernetes, including packaging (Helm) and GitOps-style deployment (FluxCD, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions)

- Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)

- Comfort with network setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting at the systems level

- Experience operating open-source observability stacks (Pr...