Infrastructure Lead
Financial infrastructure for Bitcoin-native markets, secured by zero-knowledge proofs.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Alpen
Alpen is developing an EVM-compatible Bitcoin rollup and financial infrastructure for programmable BTC markets. Its current public Testnet III runs on Bitcoin Signet, supports partner integrations, and uses a decoupled Alpen execution layer with the Strata orchestration and bridging layer. The network is progressing toward mainnet and enables applications such as borrowing, lending, yield, trading, and stablecoins.
Skills
About the Role
Lead the infrastructure team and own the reliability and security of production, staging, and testing environments. Maintain Bitcoin and Layer 2 node availability, architect scalable zk-prover systems, implement monitoring and alerting, manage upgrades, and coordinate incident response with the security team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Proven experience managing blockchain infrastructure and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of Bitcoin and Layer 2 solutions
- Experience with monitoring tools and load balancing techniques
- Experience with security monitoring and incident response processes
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment
Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain infrastructure for testing, staging, and production
- Ensure high availability of Layer 2 nodes and Bitcoin full nodes
- Architect scalable solutions for zk-prover workloads
- Implement load balancing for RPC requests and block explorers
- Develop and deploy monitoring solutions and performance metrics
- Design and maintain operational dashboards
- Establish and oversee alerting systems
- Coordinate incident response and communicate alerts to stakeholders
- Ensure correctness and security of system upgrade procedures