Somnia
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will build and run backend services including the L1 and node fleet, RPC and indexing layers, and product backends. You will automate infrastructure, define observability metrics, and lead incident response.
What you will do
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Build repeatable, self-service infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and golden paths
- Own rollouts end-to-end including progressive delivery, canaries, safe migrations and clean rollbacks
- Operate systems behind Somnia's nodes, validators, RPC and indexing
- Lead incident response and on-call
- Run blameless postmortems
- Partner with product and protocol teams to design and operate production-ready services
Required qualifications
- 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
Benefits
- Work remotely with a global team
- Competitive compensation with token incentives
About the company
Somnia is a hyperspeed L1 with native AI inference building the future of Web3.