Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Alpen Labs, an MIT-alumni-founded, New York-based company building a Bitcoin financial-system infrastructure layer through zero-knowledge cryptography and scalable Layer 2 systems, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the design, scalability and reliability of its core infrastructure. The role suits a deeply technical engineer with strong ownership and a Dev Ops mindset, partnering with engineering, security and platform teams to keep a global, distributed blockchain platform highly available, observable and resilient.

• 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, Loki and alerting, and define and implement SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Lead incident response, postmortems and reliability improvements, and improve the on-call experience through clear alerting, strong documentation and faster incident resolution.
• Drive automation across deployments, scaling and system management, and improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes for speed and safety.
• Champion Dev Ops best practices across engineering teams and encourage engineers to use infrastructure tools independently.
• Lead complex infrastructure and reliability projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and collaborate effectively within a globally distributed team.

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, Dev Ops or related roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, alerting systems).
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure or reliability-focused projects.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking and Linux systems.
• Experience working in globally distributed, async teams.
• Based in the United States.

• Based in the United States.
• Location listed as Remote (NAMER); remote does not imply worldwide eligibility, and the source directs candidates to confirm residency, time zone, language and work authorization on the original page.

• Experience with L1 and/or L2 blockchain infrastructure (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, ZkSync or similar).
• Familiarity with zero-knowledge systems or cryptographic infrastructure.
• Experience supporting high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Background working in startup or high-growth environments.

• The source describes an invitation to contribute to cutting-edge blockchain technologies, a commitment to providing resources for learning, growth and productivity, and a compensation package presented as aligning generous compensation with the candidate's commitment; no specific pay range, currency, pay period, equity/tokens, insurance, leave or allowances are stated.

Editorial reading guide based on the employer listing. Check the complete source below for all application details.

Alpen Labs, an MIT-alumni-founded, New York-based company building a Bitcoin financial-system infrastructure layer through zero-knowledge cryptography and scalable Layer 2 systems, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the design, scalability and reliability of its core infrastructure. The role suits a deeply technical engineer with strong ownership and a Dev Ops mindset, partnering with engineering, security and platform teams to keep a global, distributed blockchain platform highly available, observable…