Systems Engineer (Infrastructure)
Etherscan is a blockchain explorer and analytics platform that lets users search transactions, wallet balances, tokens, and on-chain activity on Ethereum.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
About Etherscan
The platform indexes and makes searchable all Ethereum blockchain activity, giving users access to transaction details, wallet information, token data, and smart contract code. Developers can access on-chain data through the Etherscan API, which covers multiple EVM-compatible chains under a single key. Etherscan also provides a white-label block explorer service used by many other blockchain networks.
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About the Role
You will scale platforms to handle exponential growth, maintain high uptime for critical services, and defend infrastructure against malicious attacks. You will build, deploy and monitor infrastructure and services; administer cloud and dedicated servers; write monitoring scripts and configure alerting; prepare disaster recovery plans; and oversee hardware and software installations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma or Professional Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
- At least 5 years of experience in a related field
- Required skills: Network Security, IIS, Cloud Computing, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DNS, DevOps, Scripting, Command-line, Windows Server, Linux, Network Monitoring, Cloudflare
- Preferably a Senior Executive specialized in IT, Computer, Network, System or Database Administration or equivalent
- Solid knowledge of systems infrastructure, DNS, network administration and security
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Trustworthy, accountable and responsive when addressing incidents
- Extra points for knowledge or passion about Ethereum
Responsibilities
- Scale platforms to accommodate exponential growth
- Maintain uptime of critical services
- Protect infrastructure from malicious attacks
- Build, deploy and monitor infrastructure and services
- Monitor service health and ensure scalability
- Harden security policies across infrastructure
- Administer cloud and dedicated servers (AWS Azure Google Cloud)
- Configure monitoring tools and write alerting scripts
- Prepare and update disaster recovery plans
- Oversee development and installation of hardware and software