Senior Site Reliability Engineer Alpen Labs · NAMER · Site Reliability not stated ago

Senior Site Reliability role at Alpen Labs. NAMER
· full-time.

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• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure that can scale while keeping production services available
• Run production Kubernetes and manage infrastructure code in Terraform
• Set up monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, then define service targets and error budgets
• Lead incident reviews and reliability work, improving alerts, documentation and recovery speed
• Drive infrastructure projects, deployment automation and safer CI/CD releases across engineering teams

• At least ten years in SRE, Dev Ops or a related role
• Deep production experience with AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform
• Hands-on knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and alerting systems
• You have led infrastructure or reliability projects and understand distributed systems, networking and Linux
• You are based in the United States and have worked with globally distributed, asynchronous teams

This senior role suits an experienced SRE who can lead infrastructure work, improve reliability and mentor engineers. You’ll collaborate with teams across time zones, and must be based in the United States.

Alpen Labs is building the infrastructure layer that expands what Bitcoin can do. We’re building Alpen to become Bitcoin’s financial system, enabling users and institutions to access financial services directly on Bitcoin. Founded by MIT alumni and based in New York, the company focuses on advancing Bitcoin through innovations in zero-knowledge cryptography, scalable Layer 2 systems, and trust-minimized programmable infrastructure.

We believe Bitcoin is entering a new phase where developers, institutions, and financial systems will build directly on top of it. Alpen enables this by adding financial services, privacy, and usability layers to Bitcoin, making it practical to use as money at a global scale.

Our team includes engineers and researchers from organizations such as Blockstream, Palantir, and Nethermind, as well as contributors to major open-source cryptography and blockchain projects.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will lead the design, scalability, and reliability of Alpen’s core infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with a strong sense of ownership and a Dev Ops mindset. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring our systems are highly available, observable, and resilient as we scale a global, distributed blockchain platform.

You’ll partner closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to drive reliability standards, lead infrastructure initiatives, and mentor other engineers.

Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure on AWS

Lead Kubernetes architecture and operations for production-grade systems

Own and evolve infrastructure as code using Terraform

Design and maintain observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki

Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Lead incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements

Drive automation across deployments, scaling, and system management

Improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes for speed and safety

Champion Dev Ops best practices across engineering teams

Lead complex infrastructure and reliability projects end-to-end

Improve the on-call experience through clear alerting, strong documentation, and faster incident resolution

Encourage teams to adopt a Dev Ops approach by empowering engineers to use infrastructure tools independently while elevating operational standards

Collaborate effectively within a globally distributed team

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