Senior DevOps Engineer
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Requirements
• Seasoned DevOps/Infra Engineer • +4–10 years of experience operating complex production systems. Ideally spanning both traditional infrastructure and crypto-native environments. • Technical Generalist with Depth • Strong command of Linux, networking, and system internals. You understand how to scale, secure, and debug systems from the OS to the application layer. • Automation & Tooling Expert • Proficient with modern infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana) and comfortable designing CI/CD pipelines for secure distributed systems. • Programming Fluency • Familiarity with scripting (Python, Bash) for operational workflows. Ideally skilled in Go or Rust for building automation and integration tooling. • Collaborative & Curious • You thrive in async, remote-first teams, communicate with clarity, and proactively improve shared systems. You’re deeply curious about MEV, Ethereum, and the frontier of decentralized compute. • Details that matter • Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work • Attractive health coverage package for US employees • $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals • Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space • Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant • Remote working, while we have a preference for EU/US time zones, you can work from anywhere in the world • Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events • At Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.
Responsibilities
• Contribute to the deployment, operation, and reliability of block builder platform from Kubernetes clusters to bare-metal environments. • Maintain and scale distributed infrastructure spanning L1 and L2 environments for consistent performance under high-throughput workloads. • Drive observability, incident response, and performance optimization through modern SRE and DevOps practices. • Build automation and tooling to simplify operations and improve developer experience across systems. • Design CI/CD workflows for TEE-based environments and blockchain node infrastructure. • Contribute to the design of reproducible, secure environments across multiple clouds and hosting providers. • Partner with backend, research, and protocol teams to support rollup infrastructure, MEV systems, and next-gener0957231846_job_posting: • Senior DevOps Engineer at Flashbots - Roles & Responsibilities • ------------------------------------------------------------- • About us | About Us • At the forefront of building a future Internet, we are an accelerationist organization with exceptional kindness and independence. We're innovators exploring new frontiers in MEV through our dual engines: open research initiatives like mev-geth and breakthrough product development such as Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet. • We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with platform-first mindset to fortify the infrastructure for our Block Builders team at Flashbots: • What You'll Do | Responsibilities (bullet points) • ----------------------------- • Platform Reliability & Operations • Contribute, support and or lead deployment, operation, and reliability of block builder platform from Kubernetes clusters to bare-metal environments. • Maintain and scale distributed infrastructure spanning L1 and L2 environments for consistent performance under high-throughput workloads. • Drive observability, incident response, and performance optimization through modern SRE and DevOps practices. • Infrastructure Development & Automation • Build automation and tooling to simplify operations across systems. • Design CI/CD workflows for TEE-based environments and blockchain node infrastructure ensuring high assurance in production settings. • Contribute to the design of reproducible, secure multi-cloud and hosting provider environments. • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Partner with backend, research, and protocol teams supporting rollup infrastructure, MEV systems, next-generation execution environments. • Engage in envisioning, proofing, and deployment of new L2 infrastructure components integrating TEE technology for secure products like Flashblocks. • Operational Excellence & Open Source Contribution
Benefits
• Equity options mentioned as part of the benefits package • Paid Time Off (PTO) included • Insurance coverage provided to employees • Remote work options available, though details may vary based on role and project needs