Devops / Site Reliability Engineer (Web3)

TL;DR

Devops / Site Reliability Engineer (Web3): Designing, building, and operating cloud and platform foundations for hirify.global Developer Platform (ZDP) with an accent on API management, developer portal, and security. Focus on automating runbooks and incident tooling, including load and failure testing and shaping our approach to multi-region and horizontal scaling, including data residency considerations such as GDPR and disaster recovery.

Location: Possible full remote

Company

hirify.global is an open source cryptography company building state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.

What you will do

• Own and operate the hirify.global Developer Platform API management layer and developer portal, including API key lifecycle, rate limits, quotas, and tenant policies.
• Write and maintain small services, CLIs and gateway plugins for the platform, primarily in Go or Rust, with tests and code reviews.
• Build reliable CI/CD, environment isolation, and release automation that supports frequent, safe changes for ZDP Relayer, client SDKs, and other components.
• Establish end-to-end observability with structured logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, and actionable alerting, then iterate based on what you learn.
• Reduce toil by automating runbooks and incident tooling, including load and failure testing.

Requirements

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps for blockchain infrastructure, especially for Ethereum-based blockchains, primarily on AWS.
• Experience with API management platforms such as Tyk, Kong Konnect, or WSO2, including custom policies or plugins.
• Familiarity with identity platforms (IdPs) such as Auth0, Okta, Keycloak, LogTo etc and configuring identity/authorization engines for OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and service-to-service auth.
• Ability to build production-grade tooling or small services in Go or Rust, plus a scripting language such as Python or TypeScript.
• Strong infrastructure as code skills, for example Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or Pulumi.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of applying Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF), API management, and Page Rules engine for traffic management.
• Competence with CI/CD (for example GitHub Actions) and release engineering.
• Practical knowledge of observability stacks and SLO-driven operations.
• Prior experience with creating/managing runbooks for on-call operations.
• Hands-on experience of load testing, chaos testing, or failure-injection testing.
• Only candidates based in +/-4 hours of UTC are suitable for this role.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global values and promotes diversity.
• Fair chance to be evaluated on their professional, academic, and personal skills.
• Aim is to make the hiring process as pleasant, stress-free, and friendly as possible, even if the process is longer and more involved than you might find elsewhere.

Hiring process

• Step 1: The Application Form
• Step 2: The Challenge
• Step 3: The Technical Interview
• Step 4: Cultural Fit & Compensation Chat
• Step 5: The Hacking Trial
• Step 6: The Reference Check & Offer