Lead SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Subsquid (SQD) provides the onchain data layer.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Subsquid
Subsquid operates SQD, a data infrastructure stack for blockchain data comprising four integrated products: Portal (an HTTP API for raw blockchain data with streaming and finality handling), Network (a decentralized data lake with 2,000+ worker nodes and 225+ supported networks), SDK (TypeScript libraries — Squid SDK and Pipes SDK — for data transformation and persistence), and Cloud (a managed deployment platform). Every block is validated with six cryptographic checks at ingestion, replicated across the network, and delivered via a single streaming API to destinations like Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and S3/GCS. The company serves institutional and enterprise clients in DeFi, compliance, trading, security, analytics, and prediction markets, with over $20B in TVL served by SQD-powered protocols, and is repositioning toward institutional clients under new CEO Wanja S. Oberhof. The stack is open-source (Portal software is AGPL-3.0 licensed Rust) and self-hostable, with an SQD token used for network staking and delegation.
Skills
About the Role
Design, build, and optimize high-availability blockchain data infrastructure while owning CI/CD, orchestration, infrastructure as code, monitoring, alerting, incident management, on-call operations, reliability, observability, automation, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
- Experience running production services against real SLAs, including on-call, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Experience defining and implementing metrics, logging, and alerting.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent monitoring tools.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and streaming data pipelines.
- Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, or bare-metal infrastructure and cost optimization.
- Experience balancing performance, reliability, and cost.
- Programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
- Experience monitoring and running blockchain nodes or working with node providers.
- Willingness to learn blockchain node internals, EVM/SVM data, and new chain integration.
- Previous Web3 experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize a high-availability blockchain data ingestion pipeline.
- Own CI/CD, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code layers.
- Identify and implement tools for running and monitoring blockchain nodes.
- Assess infrastructure trade-offs to optimize performance, reliability, and cost.
- Build and maintain a public status page and incident management process.
- Define and maintain SRE metrics, logging, and alerting.
- Improve observability, automation, and fault tolerance.
- Contribute to incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call rotations.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus token incentives
- Fully remote work
- Flexible hours
- High-impact role with ownership
- Opportunity to build operational foundations for an AI/Web3 company
