TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (Web3/DeFi): Architecting and scaling mission-critical infrastructure for a next-generation decentralized exchange with an accent on system security, scalability, and high availability. Focus on designing self-healing systems, automating infrastructure processes, and optimizing performance for high-throughput, low-latency environments.

Location: Fully Remote, with EU timezone alignment preferred.

Company

%hirify_global% is a dynamic, forward-thinking, and fully remote team building a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) and network.

What you will do

Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines for backend, frontend, and smart contract codebases.
Define SLO/SLIs and implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies.
Implement network segmentation, secret management, and runtime hardening to protect against threats.
Optimize autoscaling and network configurations for high-throughput workloads.
Establish disaster recovery plans, lead post-mortems, and proactively address root causes.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure roles supporting mission-critical, high-availability systems.
6+ years of deep experience with AWS or GCP.
Expertise in IaC & Orchestration, including Terraform/Pulumi and hands-on experience managing Kubernetes and Docker at scale.
Security-first mindset with practical experience in IAM policies and HashiCorp Vault.
Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
Analytical approach with experience tuning production environments for latency-sensitive or financial workloads.

Nice to have

Experience supporting low-latency trading systems or real-time financial applications.
Familiarity with Blockchain infrastructure, node operations, and Web3 tooling.
Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and zero-downtime deployment strategies.

Culture & Benefits

Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in the world with a high-trust, results-oriented team.
Competitive compensation package with a strong base salary.
Unique upside through token grants on a sliding scale.
Technical ownership: Lead the infrastructure strategy for a high-growth DeFi protocol.
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud-native, observability, and blockchain technologies.