Wormhole Foundation · 1 day ago
Crypto Production Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expWormhole Foundation is dedicated to advancing blockchain interoperability technologies, and they are seeking an experienced Crypto Production Engineer. The role focuses on improving the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Wormhole's production infrastructure, ensuring high uptime and effective incident response.
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Responsibilities
Act as first responder and incident commander during production incidents
Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and retrospective documentation
Build detailed incident timelines and preventative runbooks
Respond to incidents related to: performance issues, CCQ failures or degraded throughput, observability pipeline outages, and core Wormhole products
Deliver remediation recommendations and implement approved fixes
Improve reliability and uptime across all Wormhole services
Strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting systems
Harden infrastructure for security and operational resiliency
Enhance deployment workflows and reduce operational friction
Lead incident response, analysis, and continuous improvement
Support operational tooling used by engineering, DevOps, and validator partners
Qualification
Required
Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experience over at least five years
Established experience as incident commander across multiple stakeholders in global team
Familiarity with metrics and log analysis tools (e.g., Grafana), incident response tools (e.g., PagerDuty), GitHub administration and related tools
Deep understanding of reliability engineering, observability, and incident response for distributed systems
Ability to write and debug code in any of the following: Go, Rust, Java
Strong experience operating in Grafana or Datadog or Splunk and/or Kubernetes in production environments
Experience securing distributed systems and public-facing infrastructure
Ability to operate independently, document clearly, and lead during incidents
Solid understanding of cloud computing environments (AWS and GCP preferred) and willingness to keep up to date with their changing offerings
Excellent and proactive written and verbal communication
Preferred
Ideal candidate will be based in ET or GMT time zone or the ability to work those hours
Company
Wormhole Foundation
Wormhole Foundation is dedicated to supporting open-source, decentralized technologies that securely and seamlessly connect Web3.
51-200 employees
Funding
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