About the Role
- We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and run Somnia's key backend
- services: the L1 and node fleet, RPC and indexing layers, product backends, and
- developer-facing services teams depend on. An SRE-minded role: you make reliability
- measurable, rollouts safe, and infrastructure repeatable, so every team can move fast without
- breaking things.
- You treat infrastructure as a product: automate relentlessly, measure everything, and leverage
- AI to accelerate development, operations, and incident response.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, plus the observability—metrics,
- logs, traces and alerts—that catches regressions before users do.
- Build repeatable, self-service infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and
- golden paths so teams can provision, deploy and recover without reinventing the wheel.
- Own rollouts end-to-end—progressive delivery, canaries, safe migrations and clean
- rollbacks.
- Operate the systems behind Somnia's nodes, validators, RPC and indexing, tuning for
- performance and cost across regions.
- Lead incident response and on-call, run blameless postmortems, and continuously
- harden the platform.
- Partner with product and protocol teams to design and operate production-ready
- services. You'll rotate between embedding with engineering teams and building the
- shared platform, tooling and operational standards that underpin the wider organisation.
Requirements
Must Have
- Strong experience operating production infrastructure at scale (cloud and/or bare metal), with deep Linux fundamentals.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform or Pulumi, alongside configuration management.
- Experience running containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) in production.
- Strong programming skills, ideally in Go and/or TypeScript, for building automation and internal tooling.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalents).
- Experience operating and monitoring distributed systems, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
- Comfortable operating in high-stakes production environments and responding to incidents.
- Genuine interest in crypto and on-chain systems.
Nice to Have
- Experience operating blockchain node infrastructure (validators, RPC, archive nodes) for an L1/L2.
- Experience with high-performance networking, low-latency systems or load balancing at
- scale.
- Multi-region and geo-distributed deployments with failover strategies.
- Security and key management (HSMs, secrets management, hardening).
- EVM tooling and the wider Web3 infrastructure ecosystem.
What Success Looks Like
- Engineers can deploy safely and frequently with confidence.
- Platform reliability is measurable, with well-defined SLOs and continuously improving service health.
- Infrastructure is automated, repeatable and increasingly self-service.
- Incidents become less frequent, easier to diagnose and faster to resolve.
- Product teams spend more time shipping features and less time managing infrastructure.
Why Join Somnia?
- Design The Future: Join Somnia to work remotely with a global team, earn competitive compensation with token incentives, and help build the future of Web3 at a company where your impact truly matters.
- First of its Kind: Make Somnia famous as the only hyperspeed L1 with native AI inference.
- High Stakes: Influence a brand targeting a $1M+ launch budget in the 2026 peak-fragility market.
- Incentives: Competitive salary + tokens.
Role Location
The role is remote, but we are looking for someone based in Europe or Asia (preferably).
