Optimum · 1 day ago
Lead DevSecOps Infra Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expOptimum is delivering the world's first Decentralized Web3 Internet Protocol for any blockchain. The Lead DevSecOps Infra Engineer will be accountable for the reliability, security, and scalability of Optimum’s decentralized network, acting as the connective layer between protocol engineering, research, product, and security.
Telecommunications
Responsibilities
Own the DevSecOps of Optimum’s distributed infrastructure (P2P nodes, gateways, relays, control-plane services)
Lead DevSecOps evolution across devnets, testnets, and mainnet, including launch readiness and upgrade paths
Own the infrastructure security posture across environments
Integrate security into the delivery lifecycle, including: secure CI/CD pipelines, secrets and key management, access control and IAM, node and peer identity handling
Harden infrastructure against Web3-specific threats (DDoS, eclipse/sybil patterns, replay attacks, resource exhaustion)
Set DevSecOps standards for infrastructure-as-code and orchestration (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm)
Ensure fast, reproducible, and auditable deployments across environments
Drive DevSecOps automation as a first-class principle
Define and own SLOs/SLIs around: propagation latency (including tail behavior), availability and fault tolerance, peer churn, packet loss, and network stability
Build reliability processes suitable for mission-critical mainnet systems
Own build, release, and rollout pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
Enforce artifact integrity, versioning, controlled rollouts, and fast rollback paths
Balance velocity with production safety
Partner closely with protocol engineers and researchers to productionize new networking and RLNC-based capabilities
Work with product and BD to ensure infrastructure constraints and guarantees are well understood
Provide infrastructure input to roadmap, launch planning, and external commitments
Leading company wide security practices & provide educational awareness of new threats
Own on-call strategy, escalation paths, runbooks, and incident communication
Lead post-mortems focused on systemic improvement
Establish a culture of operational discipline
Stay hands-on where it matters: build internal tools, automation, and operators (Go, Python, Bash)
Enable infra engineers and protocol teams to debug and operate the system efficiently
Qualification
Required
8+ years in Infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles, including ownership of DevSecOps in production systems
Demonstrated experience operating distributed systems at scale, ideally in Web3 or similarly adversarial environments
Proven experience leading incidents, setting reliability standards, and interfacing with non-infra teams
Strong security mindset applied to infrastructure and delivery workflows
Preferred
Hands-on experience building security policies as code
Experience operating blockchain infrastructure or deep familiarity with consensus mechanisms, validator ecosystems, and network-layer attacks
AWS Security Specialty, GCP Professional Security Engineer, or equivalent
Instrumenting or profiling critical systems
Benefits
Competitive compensation package, including token incentives.
Remote-first environment with flexible hours.
High ownership role with real influence on protocol success.
Close collaboration with world-class researchers and protocol engineers.
Company
Optimum
At Optimum, we believe in the power of connection. We deliver fast internet, mobile, TV, and phone services to millions of homes and businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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