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ENS Labs Ltd · 1 month ago

Staff DevOps Engineer (Web3)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

ENS Labs is a decentralized naming system built on the Ethereum blockchain, enabling human-readable names to link to Ethereum addresses. They are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to manage and operate the infrastructure for ENS, focusing on automation, security, and reliability across multiple chains.

BlockchainCryptocurrencyWeb Apps

Responsibilities

Plan, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), including Kubernetes cluster management, container orchestration, networking/security, performance optimization, and scaling

CI/CD: Own GitHub Actions pipelines for core services; create/maintain Infrastructure as Code; automate builds/tests/deploys, release/versioning, and security scans

End-to-end testing: Own Docker/Compose-based E2E environments integrated with CI; seed realistic data and gate releases on failures

Metadata service: Operate and harden metadata.ens.domains(HA, caching, secrets, rollouts, SLOs)

Deploy/scale gateways, manage signing keys/rotation, monitor off-chain lookups/latency, uphold SLAs

Run ENSIndexer across L1/L2 with private RPCs; manage Postgres (tuning, backups, schema changes); keep indexing lag low

Stand up and maintain L2 nodes; plan upgrades, snapshots, and monitoring; coordinate with external providers (RPC, provers)

Instrument on-chain/service metrics; build alerts/dashboards; lead incident response and post-mortems

Enforce least-privilege access, secret hygiene, and key custody for gateways and infra

Partner with protocol/app engineers; maintain runbooks and concise architecture docs

Qualification

KubernetesAWSCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeTypeScriptPythonPostgresObservabilityClear communicatorSecurity-first operatorRemote collaboration

Required

5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infra running production systems (Kubernetes/containers) on AWS and/or GCP

Strong CI/CD with GitHub Actions; hands-on with IaC (Terraform/Pulumi/Ansible)

Automation in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Go

Observability you've shipped: metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards (Prometheus/Grafana + centralized logging)

Postgres basics (migrations, performance, backups) and Redis caching

Security-first operator: Familiar with industry standards and best practices; able to serve as front-line triage for production/security issues and escalate when appropriate

Familiar with Ethereum/L2 concepts and operating nodes/RPC-driven services

Clear communicator who documents well and thrives in a remote, async environment