Crypto Production Engineer
Role Overview
This is a senior-level Crypto Production Engineer role focused on ensuring high reliability and security for Wormhole's blockchain infrastructure. The engineer will lead incident response, improve monitoring systems, and collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to maintain 99.99% uptime. Day-to-day responsibilities include triaging production issues, building runbooks, and enhancing deployment workflows to support critical services.
Perks & Benefits
The role is fully remote, offering flexibility in work location without explicit time zone restrictions, typical for tech jobs. It involves collaboration with diverse teams like engineering and validators, providing opportunities for career growth in blockchain interoperability. The culture emphasizes operational excellence and open-source development, with a focus on security and reliability in a decentralized ecosystem.
Full Job Description
The Wormhole FoundationOur mission is to empower passionate people in the research and development of blockchain interoperability technologies. We support teams building secure, open-source, and decentralized products within the Wormhole ecosystem.The Role: Crypto Production Engineer Wormhole Foundation is seeking an experienced Crypto Production Engineer to improve the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Wormhole’s production infrastructure. This role focuses on uptime, observability, deployment workflows, and incident response across critical blockchain and networking services. The Crypto Production Engineer will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and validator partners to ensure Wormhole services operate at a minimum 99.99% uptime, excluding scheduled maintenance windows. What you'll be doing:
Act as first responder and incident commander during production incidents Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and retrospective documentation Build detailed incident timelines and preventative runbooks Respond to incidents related to: performance issues, CCQ failures or degraded throughput, observability pipeline outages, and core Wormhole products Deliver remediation recommendations and implement approved fixes Improve reliability and uptime across all Wormhole services Strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting systems Harden infrastructure for security and operational resiliency Enhance deployment workflows and reduce operational friction Lead incident response, analysis, and continuous improvement Support operational tooling used by engineering, DevOps, and validator partners
Who you are:
Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant experience in production engineering. Please mention the word **GLISTEN** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
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