About the role
The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders who are on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralized tech. We believe that the Monad blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world.
The Role We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep Linux expertise and a strong track record of building infrastructure and testing automation from scratch. You'll join a small, talented team of systems experts to extend the testing, tooling, and operational backbone of a high-performance, next-generation Layer 1 blockchain. What You Will Do Build and maintain testnets and test automation for components of the Monad blockchain Prototype new deployment patterns across validator and full-node topologies Design and run performance benchmarks and load tests to surface bottlenecks before they reach production Drive observability, alerting, and security across the stack Define best practices for node operators & support them Develop tooling for internal & external use Participate in on-call rotation for production support
Who You Are 2+ years of DevOps experience at a professional RPC provider / professional validator company / L1 blockchain 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (Terraform, Ansible) 2+ years of experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) Proficient in bare metal server management and scripting Proficient in at least one back-end language such as Python or Go Hands-on experience running highly available containerized systems on Kubernetes, including packaging (Helm) and GitOps-style deployment (FluxCD, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions) Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) Comfort with network setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting at the systems level Experience operating open-source observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar) Proficient with command-line git Able to juggle competing priorities and move quickly during incidents Fluent written and spoken English
