Senior DevOps Engineer

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://flashbots.net

About usAt Flashbots, we're building the foundations of the future Internet and financial system. As an R&D organization, we focus on MEV through our dual engines of open research and breakthrough product development like mev-geth, Flashbots Protect, MEV-Boost, MEV-Share, Flashblocks, and BuilderNet.Our vibe is accelerationist, exceptional, kind, and independent. We are explorers, innovators, builders, and thinkers. We thrive on action, curiosity, and impact - driving the future in an iterative way while keeping an eye towards the long term version we want to see in the world.Flashbots is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer with a platform-first mindset to fortify the infrastructure powering our Block Builders.You ll work at the intersection of distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, and trusted compute thus ensuring that our production environment remains scalable, resilient, and secure.What You ll DoPlatform Reliability & OperationsContribute, support and or lead the deployment, operation, and reliability of the block builder platform from Kubernetes clusters to bare-metal environments.Maintain and scale distributed infrastructure spanning L1 and L2 environments, ensuring consistent performance under high-throughput and latency-sensitive workloads.Drive observability, incident response, and performance optimization through modern SRE and DevOps practices.Infrastructure Development & AutomationBuild automation and tooling to simplify operations, improve developer experience, and reduce toil across our systems.Design CI/CD workflows for high-assurance environments, including TEE-based systems and blockchain node infrastructure.Contribute to the design of reproducible, secure environments across multiple clouds and hosting providers.Cross-Functional CollaborationPartner with backend, research, and protocol teams to support rollup infrastructure, MEV systems, and next-generation execution environments.Participate in the envisioning, proofing, and deployment of new L2 infrastructure components and TEE-integrated products.Operational Excellence & Open SourceLead root-cause investigations, reliability reviews, and postmortems for production systems.Contribute to open-source tooling and documentation that powers the Ethereum ecosystem.Who You AreSeasoned DevOps/Infra Engineer+4 10 years of experience operating complex production systems. Ideally spanning both traditional infrastructure and crypto-native environments.Technical Generalist with DepthStrong command of Linux, networking, and system internals. You understand how to scale, secure, and debug systems from the OS to the application layer.Automation & Tooling ExpertProficient with modern infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana) and comfortable designing CI/CD pipelines for secure distributed systems.Programming FluencyFamiliarity with scripting (Python, Bash) for operational workflows. Ideally skilled in Go or Rust for building automation and integration tooling.Collaborative & CuriousYou thrive in async, remote-first teams, communicate with clarity, and proactively improve shared systems. You re deeply curious about MEV, Ethereum, and the frontier of decentralized compute.Details that matterSignificantly above market rate equity compensation packageUnlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your workAttractive health coverage package for US employees$3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goalsWork alongside the brightest minds in the crypto spaceHelp save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistantRemote working, while we have a preference for EU/US time zones, you can work from anywhere in the worldPaid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to eventsAt Flashbots, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.

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