Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Zenith enables developers to deploy Ethereum applications in EVM environments anchored on Canton Network, providing atomic composability with Canton's institutional blockchain infrastructure.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Zenith
Zenith provides EVM execution environments on Canton Network for developers and enterprises building regulated financial applications. Developers can deploy Solidity contracts using familiar tooling, interact atomically with Canton-native assets, and access institutional transaction flows. Two deployment options serve different needs: Zenith EVM for instant application hosting and Zenith Stack for fully customizable chain environments with configurable economics and permissions.
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About the Role
You will own Zenith’s infrastructure systems and lead reliability, performance, and operational functions across internal systems, client environments, and validator infrastructure. You will build cloud environments, establish SRE processes, automate provisioning and deployment, support blockchain protocol operations, and grow an SRE team as the organization scales.
Requirements
- Previous experience owning site reliability for a company
- Experience building or leading an SRE team
- 7+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
- Experience owning reliability, uptime, and operational excellence for distributed systems or mission-critical infrastructure
- Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, cloud platforms, containerization, and infrastructure automation
- Previous expertise with Kubernetes
- Experience building monitoring, observability, performance, alerting, incident response, and on-call systems
- Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Knowledge of CI/CD systems
- Knowledge of secrets management
- Knowledge of logging and metrics stacks
- Ability to design and execute scalable, fault-tolerant architectures
- Ability to coordinate with engineering, product, and protocol teams
- Based in Europe strongly preferred
- Experience operating blockchain, validator, L1, L2, consensus, or distributed ledger infrastructure
- Familiarity with EVM-based blockchain architectures
- Experience with high-throughput, low-latency, or cryptographic workloads
- Background supporting enterprise clients, regulated environments, or high-availability financial systems
Responsibilities
- Own production reliability and resilience practices
- Build, automate, and maintain scalable cloud systems
- Define and implement incident response, observability, monitoring, alerting, on-call rotation, runbooks, and reliability KPIs
- Establish versioning, release management, configuration, secrets, environment orchestration, and reproducibility systems
- Support deployment, scaling, and reliability of client-tailored Zenith Stack environments
- Support validator operations, network participation, upgrades, and secure infrastructure
- Automate provisioning, deployment, and system testing
- Grow and mentor an SRE team
- Provide hands-on leadership across infrastructure decisions, cloud architecture, and reliability challenges
Benefits
- Remote work