Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will build and run the infrastructure behind AI applications and blockchain systems. The work covers reliability, scaling, security and automation of production systems that serve users globally.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain production blockchain infrastructure, including validators, RPC services and indexers
• Ensure high availability and performance for AI-enabled developer platforms and internal tooling
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting and dashboards
• Write automation and infrastructure code to reduce toil and improve reliability
• Take part in on-call rotations, incident response and post-incident reviews
• Partner with engineering teams to build reliability, scalability and security into system design
• Improve Kubernetes reliability across cloud and bare-metal environments
• Refine deployment, rollback and recovery strategies

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering
• Production experience in Go and/or Python
• Deep expertise operating Linux systems in production
• Proven track record running Kubernetes at scale in high-availability environments
• Experience supporting distributed systems with demanding uptime requirements
• Comfort working in fast-moving startup environments with evolving requirements
• Strong security mindset for infrastructure on public or adversarial networks
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI-powered infrastructure, observability tools or developer tooling
• Experience operating blockchain nodes or validator infrastructure
• Familiarity with Cosmos-based chains or EVM clients
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps or GitOps methodologies
• Active contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

• Base salary plus 10% to 25% in liquid benefits
• Share in the long-term success of the network
• Flexible hybrid work environment in San Francisco
• Work with modern, best-in-class infrastructure tooling
• Collaborate with talented engineers on distributed systems challenges

Before you apply

• Prior blockchain experience is not required

About the company

ZetaChain builds infrastructure for a more private and interoperable internet. Its flagship product is Anuma.ai, a privacy-first AI platform, and the company is backed by top-tier investors.