About the role
Privacy — Freedom — Trust — Fairness
For those interested in joining Alien, please apply at [email protected]
We are looking for a Senior Blockchain SRE Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of Alien’s distributed infrastructure. You will work across backend services, blockchain integrations, agent systems, and mini apps to build scalable, observable, and production-grade systems in a fast-moving environment.
Tech Stack
AWS (Lightsail, CloudWatch, S3), Docker, NATS, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, Go, Python, TypeScript, gRPC, REST, Smart Contracts (Solidity/Rust), Observability: metrics, logging, tracing stacks
Tasks
- Build and maintain reliable cloud infrastructure for Alien’s identity, wallet, agent, and mini-app systems.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and on-call pipelines for mission-critical systems.
- Optimize performance and scalability across distributed services and event-driven flows.
- Improve CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions), ensuring safe and fast deploys.
- Manage containerized environments (Docker-based services).
- Ensure strong security, data integrity, and privacy-preserving infrastructure practices.
- Build disaster recovery, redundancy, and failover systems.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure production readiness for new features.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (compute, storage, monitoring).
- Strong experience with Docker-based deployments.
- Ability to build observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with production CI/CD pipelines.
