Infrastructure Engineer

About Injective Labs

Injective Labs is trailblazing a new dawn for Web3 enabled finance. We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry. Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform that is optimized for building decentralized finance applications. Interoperability is at the core of Injective, which is natively integrated with chains such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Solana. Developers can rapidly launch premier financial applications suited for mass adoption using Injective’s infrastructure and specialized DeFi primitives such as the world’s first fully on-chain order book.Our team has decades of experience spearheading the largest financial institutions and tech organizations. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by leading firms such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.

About the role:

Injective Labs is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate will bring extensive know-how and insights of how to ensure Injective’s infrastructure meets the ever growing usage demand. The ideal candidate is passionate about blockchain, DeFi and disrupting the status quo.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, monitor, and ensure the availability and optimal performance of blockchain infrastructure and systems
• Implement strategies to optimize system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
• Proactively respond to incidents, investigate root causes, and resolve infrastructure issues in a timely manner.
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters for production environments, ensuring high availability and security
• Collaborate with blockchain engineers to integrate and support blockchain nodes and related services
• Establish and maintain effective monitoring systems to identify performance bottlenecks and implement improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for mission-critical systems.

Who you are:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure or DevOps Engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in managing production-quality Kubernetes clusters, with experience in large-scale cluster operation being a significant advantage.
• Expertise in using ArgoCD and Helm Charts for managing Kubernetes application deployments.
• Strong experience with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), including infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proven ability to deploy, operate, and optimize high-performance, large-scale infrastructure, ideally in the context of blockchain systems.
• Experience with blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum, Tendermint, or Cosmos SDK is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; capable of creating custom dashboards and alerts.
• Strong command of containerization technologies like Docker, with experience in troubleshooting runtime and Linux kernel-related issues.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their implementation in automated deployments.
• Familiarity with networking concepts such as VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS.
• Bonus: Knowledge of advanced security practices, database administration (ie. mongoDB and Postgres), and high-throughput message queues.

As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.