What You’ll Do

📍Solana Network Leadership: Lead end-to-end deployment and optimization projects for Solana infrastructure, including validator nodes, RPC endpoints, and indexing services. Drive design reviews, canary rollouts, and continuous improvements to performance and reliability. 📍High-Severity Incident Command: Own SEV 0/1 response, coordinating mitigation across Teams, running postmortems, and ensuring root-cause resolution with follow-through on corrective actions. 📍SLO Ownership & Capacity Strategy: Define and manage service-level objectives (SLOs) and SLAs. Build and maintain cost models and capacity planning tools to forecast infrastructure needs and control spend. 📍Monitoring & Proactive Issue Detection: Develop dashboards and alerting solutions using tools like Grafana and DataDog. Identify anomalies and trends to prevent outages before they occur. 📍Automation & Infra as Code: Implement and maintain automation via Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Reduce toil, accelerate deployment timelines, and ensure consistent environments across staging and production. 📍Mentorship & Peer Review: Provide mentorship to engineers on deployment, observability, and Solana-specific ops. Review infrastructure code and monitoring configs. Raise the bar through shared knowledge. 📍Solana Ecosystem Engagement: Act as a technical representative in Solana forums and community calls. Collaborate directly with the Solana Foundation and ecosystem contributors to troubleshoot and evolve protocol-level operations. 📍Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with internal infrastructure, platform, and support Teams to solve customer-impacting issues. Contribute insights to architectural and product-level discussions. 📍24/7 On-Call Participation: Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring 24/7 availability for critical systems and supporting rapid incident resolution.

What You’ll Bring

📍Minimum of 5+ years in Technical Operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles, with proven Linux/Unix system administration and advanced troubleshooting capabilities. Holding an RHCE-level Linux or similar certification would be beneficial. 📍Hands-on experience operating and optimizing Solana validator nodes, RPC endpoints, and associated infrastructure at scale. Must be familiar with high-level Solana protocol and core components. Proficient in analyzing validator logs, RPC debugging, and addressing Solana-specific operational issues. Contributions into open-source Solana projects is an asset. 📍Solid hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools (Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Consul), including containerization expertise (Docker, Kubernetes), managing and scaling services in cloud environments.

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