Senior DevOps Engineer

Location

New York City, New York, United States

Salary

60000 - 100000 a year (US Dollars)

Description

Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world. After recently raising $225M in series A funding, we are growing our team.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with excellent knowledge of linux systems and significant experience building new automation for infrastructure and testing. You will be joining a small, talented team of systems experts to extend the testing and automation for a high-performance next-generation blockchain.

Our team is headquartered in NoMad, Manhattan, NYC. This is for a hybrid (3 days/week in office) role. If you are remote, the preference is in Europe.

Requirements

5 years of experience in the DevOps/SRE/Linux Engineering space
Experience in setting up a devops environment and CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions or Jenkins) from scratch
Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
Proficiency in at least one back-end development language such as Python, Go, or C++
Proficiency with command-line git
Experience writing scripts for deploying and maintaining infrastructure (Linux installations, clusters, and networks)
Experience evaluating and improving observability and security practices
Experience with network setup and maintenance
Experience with virtualization technologies like Docker, Qemu, etc
Ability to write scripts and help with testing and automation

Bonuses:

Experience working at an early-stage startup
Experience running blockchain nodes

What you’ll be doing

Building, testing, and deploying code across multiple cloud and hosted environments
Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu) installations
Building and maintaining test networks
Maintaining and improving our network infrastructure
Contributing to observability standards and security
Participating in on-call rotation for production support

Why work with us

Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.
Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow. Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto.
The right team. You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team (bios here).
Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.
Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.

Salary and benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $200,000. (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

Monad Labs’ benefits for US-based full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees); unlimited and encouraged paid time off; monthly mental health and fitness stipend; paid parental leave; and 10 company-observed holidays.

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