Infrastructure Engineer, Blockchain
Tempo enables high-throughput stablecoin payments through a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain featuring dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin-native gas fees, and sub-second finality.
Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026
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About Tempo
Tempo is a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for stablecoin payments and real-world financial transactions. Built using the Reth SDK, Tempo features dedicated payment lanes that guarantee blockspace for payment transactions regardless of network congestion, stablecoin-native gas fees allowing users to pay transaction costs in any USD-denominated stablecoin, and Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus achieving approximately 0.5-second finality. The blockchain includes a native decentralized exchange optimized for stablecoins, structured memo fields for reconciliation against enterprise systems, and protocol-level compliance features through the TIP-403 Policy Registry. Tempo was incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, with design input from global partners including Anthropic, Deutsche Bank, OpenAI, Shopify, Visa, and Standard Chartered. The blockchain launched its public testnet in December 2025, operating with an initial set of validators before transitioning to a permissionless validator model. Tempo raised $500 million in Series A funding at a $5 billion valuation in October 2025, led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks with participation from Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and SV Angel.
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About the Role
Build out Tempo's infrastructure stack, maintain chain and validator reliability, eliminate DevOps bottlenecks, improve developer experience, and help enterprises run validators.
Requirements
- Experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems.
- Proficiency building tooling and scripts using Rust, Go, or Python.
- Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes in production and using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and related infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools.
- Experience deploying monitoring, alerting, and observability systems such as Prometheus and Grafana, including securing, hardening, and troubleshooting them.
- Knowledge of Linux and networking, including troubleshooting Linux systems.
- Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Implement and manage infrastructure that enables the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively.
- Identify and eliminate DevOps bottlenecks to improve developer velocity.
- Maintain Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, and explorer reliability.
- Improve Tempo core developer experience.
- Help onboard enterprises into crypto and educate them on running validators.
- Work at the frontier of crypto performance.
