QuickNode
Technical Operations Engineer, Web3 Core Platform
Remote (Portugal, Ireland, Spain)Full-timeGlobal
🏠Remote
RemoteRemote work position available
Job Description
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You will operate and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure, launch and upgrade blockchain networks, and automate repeatable infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and other IaC. You will lead incident response, publish RCAs, and implement fixes that prevent recurrence. You will build observability and SLOs, tune RPC and validator nodes, troubleshoot networking (DNS, TLS, load balancers, anycast/BGP), and write small tools in Go or Python to reduce operational toil.
Requirements
- â—ŹProduction Linux and Kubernetes debugging experience
- â—ŹInfrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
- â—ŹProgramming and scripting experience in Go or Python plus Bash
- â—ŹBlockchain operations knowledge including JSON-RPC internals and RPC/validator node tuning
- â—ŹObservability and SLO experience with Prometheus and Grafana
- â—ŹNetworking fundamentals including DNS TLS load balancers and anycast/BGP
- â—ŹExperience with one or more of EVM clients (Geth Erigon Nethermind Besu) Cosmos SDK/CometBFT Solana or Substrate
- â—ŹMulti-cloud experience and capacity and cost modeling
- â—ŹProven production ownership and incident handling
Responsibilities
- â—ŹLaunch and upgrade blockchain networks including hard forks, snapshots, pruning, and rollbacks
- â—ŹAutomate infrastructure and deployments using IaC and CI/CD
- â—ŹRun Kubernetes at scale with safe rollouts and capacity planning
- â—ŹLead incident response, publish RCAs, and implement preventive changes
- â—ŹDefine and maintain SLOs, dashboards, and alerting to reduce noise
- â—ŹOperate and tune RPC and validator nodes
- â—ŹWrite and maintain operational tooling in Go or Python and patch client issues
- â—ŹDesign and troubleshoot network components including DNS TLS and load balancers
Benefits & Perks
- â—ŹQuarterly bonus tied to company and individual goals
- â—ŹRemote-first work
- â—ŹHumane on-call and follow-the-sun coverage
Tech Stack
KubernetesLinuxAnsiblegethvalidatorAnycastincident responseautomationJSON-RPCBesu