Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Blockchain)

Location: Remote; Europe strongly preferred. The role requires operating across global time zones and includes in-person team meetings two to four times per year.

Company

Zenith is an Ethereum extension for the Canton Network that provides Ethereum-compatible execution environments and customized blockchain infrastructure for institutional finance.

What you will do

• Own production reliability, resilience, uptime, and operational excellence across internal systems, Zenith Stack environments, and validator infrastructure.
• Build, automate, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for blockchain execution layers and off-chain runtimes.
• Establish incident response, observability, monitoring, alerting, on-call rotations, runbooks, and reliability KPIs.
• Manage versioning, release processes, configuration, secrets, environment orchestration, and reproducible deployments.
• Support client-specific Zenith Stack deployments, scaling, validator operations, network participation, upgrades, and secure infrastructure.
• Build and mentor an SRE team while remaining hands-on with infrastructure architecture and automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Experience owning reliability and uptime for distributed systems or mission-critical infrastructure, including previous SRE team leadership.
• Deep knowledge of Linux, networking, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, containerization, and infrastructure automation.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Pulumi, CI/CD, secrets management, logging, and metrics.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, performance, alerting, incident response, and on-call processes.
• Europe-based candidates are strongly preferred, with the ability to work across global time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience operating blockchain networks, validators, L1/L2 systems, consensus clients, or distributed ledgers.
• Familiarity with EVM-based blockchain architectures.
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency, or cryptographic workloads.
• Experience supporting enterprise clients, regulated environments, or high-availability financial systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with in-person meetings two to four times per year.
• Autonomy, ownership, trust, empathy, and respect are core working principles.
• Lean, asynchronous communication with an emphasis on effective meetings.
• Focus on sustainable performance, work-life fit, rest, and continuous feedback.