Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Somnia Network enables onchain applications through its own EVM-compatible blockchain. It aims to service mass consumer and real-time applications with a focus on gaming applications.
About Somnia Network
Somnia Network helps developers build mass consumer applications by providing an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. With it, you can deploy games, social platforms, and metaverse experiences requiring millions of concurrent users. Somnia eliminates blockchain scalability barriers through custom consensus mechanisms and database optimization.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Build and run Somnia's key backend services, including the L1 and node fleet, RPC and indexing layers, product backends and developer-facing services. Treat infrastructure as a product by automating operations, measuring reliability and improving platform standards.
Requirements
- Strong experience operating production infrastructure at scale with deep Linux fundamentals
- Experience with Terraform or Pulumi and configuration management
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong programming skills in Go and/or TypeScript
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability stacks
- Experience operating distributed systems, including capacity planning and performance tuning
- Comfort operating in high-stakes production environments and responding to incidents
- Genuine interest in crypto and on-chain systems
- Experience operating blockchain node infrastructure for an L1/L2
- Experience with high-performance networking, low-latency systems or load balancing
- Experience with multi-region deployments and failover strategies
- Experience with security, key management, HSMs, secrets management or hardening
- Knowledge of EVM tooling and the Web3 infrastructure ecosystem
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs and error budgets
- Build observability across metrics, logs, traces and alerts
- Build repeatable self-service infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and golden paths
- Own progressive delivery, canaries, safe migrations and rollbacks
- Operate Somnia's nodes, validators, RPC and indexing systems while tuning performance and cost
- Lead incident response and on-call
- Run blameless postmortems and harden the platform
- Partner with product and protocol teams on production-ready services
Benefits
- Remote work
- Token incentives
- Competitive salary