Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Web3)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Web3): Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of systems powering Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) with an accent on production resilience and observability. Focus on driving adoption of SLOs/SLIs, automating operational toil, and scaling infrastructure for high-throughput distributed services.

Location: Global remote role, with a preference for overlapping working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Salary: $129,000 – $244,000 (U.S. locations) or €68,000 – €176,000 (Spain).

Company

hirify.global is the industry-standard oracle platform powering decentralized finance and enabling advanced blockchain use cases for global financial institutions.

What you will do

• Advance production engineering practices to improve deployment safety and delivery velocity.
• Implement distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry to enhance observability and incident response.
• Automate operational tasks to eliminate toil and increase platform efficiency.
• Drive the adoption of meaningful SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across engineering teams.
• Scale production infrastructure and ensure operational readiness for CCIP growth.
• Strengthen system reliability and reduce operational overhead for critical services.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Proven experience building and operating production Kubernetes environments.
• Applied knowledge of OpenTelemetry for observability in distributed systems.
• Ability to improve reliability, scalability, and operability of production infrastructure.
• Must be able to overlap working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Nice to have

• Technical leadership experience influencing reliability practices.
• Experience with capacity planning and performance tuning for high-throughput services.
• Background in Web3 infrastructure or crypto-native organizations.
• Experience with chaos engineering or fault-injection techniques.
• Experience leading on-call operations and defining escalation policies.

Culture & Benefits

• Global, remote-first work environment.
• Competitive cash compensation with long-term incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on industry-standard blockchain infrastructure.
• Collaborative culture focused on operational excellence and engineering efficiency.