I’m hiring on behalf of a stealth-mode, well-funded Web3 organisation building high-performance, globally distributed infrastructure for next-generation decentralized systems. The team includes senior engineers from leading Web3, distributed systems, and trading environments.
They are entering a pivotal stage of development and are looking to bring on a Staff SRE with deep expertise in bare-metal infrastructure to help drive the reliability and performance of their foundational systems.
The Role This role is based in New York and focuses on architecting, deploying, and optimising a global fleet of bare-metal servers that underpin high-throughput, low-latency blockchain and network operations.
You’ll work closely with core protocol engineers, distributed systems teams, and networking specialists to ensure the production environment remains fast, resilient, and scalable. This is a high-impact position with significant ownership over infrastructure direction and system design.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and operate bare-metal infrastructure across global data centres
- Lead provisioning, tuning, and optimisation of high-performance server hardware
- Ensure low-latency, high-throughput performance across compute and networking layers
- Build automation, tooling, and observability for hardware-centric environments
- Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows for hybrid hardware/software deployments
- Lead incident response and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Partner closely with protocol and systems engineers to support production-grade distributed systems
- 8+ years in SRE, systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Expertise with bare-metal systems, including provisioning, BIOS/firmware tuning, and OS optimisation
- Deep understanding of Linux internals and kernel-level performance tuning
- Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Strong networking knowledge: TCP/UDP, routing, switching, BGP, latency optimisation
- Automation experience with IaC and tooling (Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts, etc.)
- Strong scripting or programming ability (Python, Go, Bash)
- Experience running distributed systems or blockchain infrastructure at scale
- Experience in Web3 (validator operations, node infrastructure, L1/L2 systems)
- Exposure to hardware acceleration (DPDK, RDMA, SmartNICs, FPGA)
Compensation
- Up to $300,000 base salary
- Token package with significant upside
- Additional benefits and flexibility
- Based in New York
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