Platform engineers with experience in blockchain infrastructure and DevOps automation will find this remote, high-impact role in a payment-first crypto environment compelling.
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Original posting from Tempo Xyz via Ashby
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.
Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.
We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.
We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
The Role
You’ll build out Tempo’s infrastructure stack and ensure the engineering team can ship effectively and efficiently. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at the frontier of crypto.
Responsibilities
- Implement and manage the infrastructure that allows the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively
- Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process to ensure optimal developer velocity
- Maintaining Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, explorer reliability and more
- Improve Tempo core developer experience
- Helping onboard the largest enterprises directly into crypto. Educate and help them run a validators.
- Working at the frontier of crypto performance
Qualifications
- Proven experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems
- Proficient at building tooling and scripts using Rust, Go or Python
- Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes within production environments and working with IaC and configuration management tools like Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD
- Skilled at deploying monitoring, alerting and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), securing and hardening those systems, and troubleshooting issues with engineers
- Knowledgeable about Linux and networking, and troubleshooting on Linux systems
Attributes
- High motor
- Razor-sharp thinker with precise command of language
- Concise, evidence-based communicator
- Excellent organizational and logistical skills
- Intense curiosity and open-mindedness
- Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves
- Growth mindset
Source: Tempo Xyz careers (Ashby)