Описание

Midnight is building a regulatory-friendly data protection blockchain designed to safeguard sensitive commercial and personal data while enabling developers, enterprises, institutions, and ecosystem partners to build privacy-preserving applications. The Midnight Operations team works with internal Engineering teams and our external infrastructure partner, BCW, to run the secure, reliable, and scalable multi-cloud and bare-metal platforms that power Midnight deployments. This is a very hands-on role with focus on ability to build solutions and work under own initiative, reporting to the Director of Protocol Operations and working closely with internal engineering teams and BCW.

Responsibilities

Ensure 99.99% uptime of critical blockchain infrastructure and implement reliability improvements
Participate in the on-call rota, mitigating and resolving production incidents and writing blameless post-mortems
Troubleshoot testing and deployment issues, resolving protocol-level bottlenecks ahead of mainnet upgrades
Manage, maintain, and automate Cardano and Midnight validator nodes for performance, reliability, and scale
Develop and maintain open-source tools for Cardano and Midnight infrastructure across multi-cloud and bare-metal
Support the transition from a foundation-coordinated federated validator model to a fully decentralised network
Optimization of the roll out templates for FNO’s and future Stake Pool Operators
Review and recommend feedback and monthly reports on FNO and internal teams
Strengthen security posture by identifying vulnerabilities and improving security controls
Identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to optimise infrastructure and validator performance
Build and maintain secure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and other CI/CD tools
Progressively own day-to-day infrastructure management, coordinating closely with BCW and internal teams
Share technical feedback and recommendations, and proactively drive automation and improvements
Keeps critical blockchain infrastructure available and performant, targeting 99.99% uptime
Manages and automates validator operations across multi-cloud and bare-metal environments
Helps guide the transition from a federated to a fully decentralised validator network
Build and configure dev, test and mainnet environments for blockchain and development partners
Build best in class Telemetry tooling and ETL dashboards to support remote monitoring

Requirements

3+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including at least 1 year with blockchain infrastructure
Practical experience managing blockchain nodes or validator infrastructure
Strong Linux administration skills and working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
Proficiency with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools
Strong shell scripting, with knowledge of Rust, Go, or Python
Experience configuring, scaling, and optimising cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS and Google Cloud
Experience of using infrastructure as code (IAC) using TerraForm and/or OpenTofu
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
Strong grasp of infrastructure security principles and practical improvements
Clear communication and documentation, including infrastructure designs and recommendations for internal and external teams
Remote from an eligible location in Asia, Europe, or LATAM, with 1–2 hours of daily US or EU overlap, a flexible schedule (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday), and on-call participation

Nice to have

Cardano stake pool, partner chain, or validator experience
GitOps and Nix
Work in a small, fast-moving technology company

We offer

Remote from Asia, Europe, or LATAM
Full time employment
Flexible schedule (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday), with participation in an on-call rota

Hiring process

Apply via the provided link