Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs and error budgets, plus the observability - metrics, logs, traces and alerts - that catches regressions before users do
• ▹Build repeatable, self-service infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and golden paths
• ▹Own rollouts end-to-end - progressive delivery, canaries, safe migrations and clean rollbacks
• ▹Operate the systems behind Somnia's nodes, validators, RPC and indexing, tuning for performance and cost across regions
• ▹Lead incident response and on-call, run blameless postmortems, and continuously harden the platform
• ▹Partner with product and protocol teams to design and operate production-ready services

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience operating production infrastructure at scale (cloud and/or bare metal), with deep Linux fundamentals
• ▹Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform or Pulumi, alongside configuration management
• ▹Experience running containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) in production
• ▹Strong programming skills, ideally in Go and/or TypeScript, for building automation and internal tooling
• ▹Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalents)
• ▹Experience operating and monitoring distributed systems, including capacity planning and performance tuning
• ▹Comfortable operating in high-stakes production environments and responding to incidents
• ▹Genuine interest in crypto and on-chain systems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience operating blockchain node infrastructure (validators, RPC, archive nodes) for an L1/L2
• ▹Experience with high-performance networking, low-latency systems or load balancing at scale
• ▹Multi-region and geo-distributed deployments with failover strategies
• ▹Security and key management (HSMs, secrets management, hardening)
• ▹EVM tooling and the wider Web3 infrastructure ecosystem

Soft skills

About the company

Somnia is the Agentic Chain - a hyper-performance L1 operating an order of magnitude faster than existing networks, enabling real-time, autonomous and fully decentralized products. It is developed by the Somnia Foundation, backed by British tech unicorn Improbable.