Site Reliability Engineer - Staking (Web3)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer - Staking (Web3): Building and operating high-availability validator nodes infrastructures across multi-cloud/bare metal Kubernetes environments with an accent on protocol adoption strategy. Focus on technical due diligence on new protocols, and integration of new protocols, and validator operations.

Location: Paris/London hybrid or Remote from EU/UK. Must be based in the EU and the UK. No B2B or contractors. No visa sponsorship for persons without work authorization in the UK or the EU.

Salary: Competitive salary

Company

hirify.global is the leading enterprise-grade rewards platform that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings.

What you will do

• Perform technical due diligence on new protocols being considered for hirify.global’s roadmap.
• Own the end-to-end integration of new protocols, configure and run validator nodes from testnet to mainnet.
• Deploy and operate high-availability validator nodes infrastructures across multi-cloud/bare metal Kubernetes environments.
• Actively contribute to IaC improvements: observability and monitoring, scaling and performance, security and compliance, incident response and debugging.
• Act as the technical expert for your protocol domains and promote best practices for validator operations.
• Participate in hirify.global’s protocol adoption strategy: provide insight to Product and GTM teams, liaise with protocol foundations teams, and represent hirify.global in ecosystems and events.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as DevOps/SRE, with strong focus on Infrastructure-as-Code and Kubernetes.
• 1+ years of experience in blockchain / crypto engineering, with strong understanding of Proof-of-Stake and validator operations.
• Hands-on experience running validator nodes; professionally or as a hobbyist.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills; ability to dive deep into blockchain protocol and infra-level issues.
• Clear communication and confident technical decision-making; ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.

Nice to have

• Involvement in blockchain ecosystems and tooling contributions.
• Experience with high-availability systems and secure infrastructure management.
• Exposure to SOC2, ISO 27001, or other certified environments.

Culture & Benefits

• A fast-paced, no bureaucratic work environment
• Equity share options in the business: if hirify.global succeeds, we all succeed!
• Flexible holiday
• Flexible remote working
• Internet connection paid up to €50/month
• Significant personal development and tech conf budget

Hiring process

• Recruiter Interview (40 min)
• Take-home test (< 2 hours)
• Technical Interview #1 [Linux & Kubernetes] (120 min)
• Technical Interview #2 [Problem solving & Debugging] (60min)
• Core Values Interview (45 min)
• Founders Interview (30 min)
• Offer!