Senior Engineer, SRE/DevOps

Our Vision: Machines Will Be Our Future Workforce
At MachineFi Lab, we're not just envisioning the future; we're actively building it—today. We power the new reward economy by fostering a fairer, safer, and more rewarding Internet of Things (IoT). Central to our mission is the concept of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), a paradigm shift leveraging blockchain technology for capital formation and human coordination on a global scale. By enabling contributions to real-world infrastructure — spanning wireless, mobility, compute, energy, storage, and beyond — we empower individuals to invest in and shape the foundation of our future society. Leveraging our cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure, a robust suite of DePIN Modules, and expertise in crafting blockchain-integrated devices, MachineFi stands at the forefront of the DePIN revolution.Are you a maverick? A digital renegade? Are you someone who challenges the status quo, believing, against all odds, that you can change the world? If so, MachineFi is for you. Join us, and be part of the movement shaping the infrastructure of tomorrow.

Senior Engineer, SRE/DEVOPS. (Part-Time/Contract Position)Engineering | US (All Locations)
Job Overview:We are seeking a talented and experienced DevOps/SRE Engineer to join our fast-paced and innovative team. As a DevOps/SRE Engineer at MachineFi, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our blockchain infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain robust DevOps practices, automate deployment pipelines, and enhance the overall system performance.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Automation: Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as K8S, Terraform or Ansible on GCP and AWS.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of blockchain nodes and related services.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for blockchain and backend applications to ensure efficient and reliable release processes.
• Implement automated testing strategies to validate code quality and deployment readiness.
• Monitoring and Incident Response: Establish and maintain monitoring solutions for the entire infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance application-level monitoring and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents promptly.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices across the infrastructure.
• Work closely with the security team to conduct regular audits and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and make recommendations for improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan for future infrastructure needs.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer in a blockchain/crypto environment.
• Strong proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with blockchain technologies (e.g., Ethereum, Cosmos).
• Significant experience with AWS public cloud technologies implemented large-scale container clusters: AWS, EKS, Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Containers technologies (Docker and Kubernetes), and IAM
• Strong programming/scripting skills with one or more scripting languages (Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, etc.) and strong Linux OS and networking fundamentals.
• Experience building monitoring systems to ensure high availability, performance, and security integrity (e.g., ELK-stack, Pingdom, Opsgenie/Pagerduty, Kiali, Weave Scope, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in operating microservices architecture based SaaS products, REST web services, SSO (Okta, Auth0), EC2-RDS, MySQL and Elasticsearch.
• Solid understanding of network protocols, security, and system administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and related services.
• AWS System Architect certification is strongly preferredKnowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Self-motivated and excited about the ambiguity, opportunity, and self-direction required at an early stage startup.

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