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Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: asymmetric.re
Full Time, Remote/Work from Home position Listed on 2026-11-15
Job specializations:
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role overview

Help keep critical blockchain infrastructure secure, available, and performant across globally distributed environments. This hands-on reliability role spans infrastructure design and operations, automation, monitoring, and incident response for systems supporting blockchain networks and decentralized finance services.

Responsibilities
  • Operate and maintain a distributed fleet of blockchain infrastructure.
  • Design, deploy, and run production infrastructure services across development, staging, and production environments.
  • Maintain infrastructure as code and improve automated deployment and CI/CD workflows.
  • Monitor system health, investigate incidents, and troubleshoot issues across hardware, networks, and software.
  • Improve availability and performance while developing operational tooling and automation.
  • Work with care and discretion in a high-trust environment.
Requirements
  • At least two years in site reliability, Dev Ops, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong experience administering Linux systems and network infrastructure.
  • Hands-on knowledge of load balancing and high-availability tools, such as HAProxy or cloud load balancers.
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt Stack.
  • Ability to develop in Go, Python, or Rust and build CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with open-source monitoring and observability tools, such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or Alert manager.
Nice to have
  • Experience operating distributed systems with Kubernetes or Nomad.
  • Familiarity with blockchain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, or Move-based networks.
Benefits and work setup

The role is fully remote.

  • 25 or more paid days off
  • Stipends for home office
  • Wellbeing
  • Professional development
  • Retirement plans
  • Life insurance
  • Healthcare
  • Base salary
  • Bonus programs
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