Infrastructure Engineer, Blockchain (Remote - USA)

Tempo; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempo is building a layer-1 blockchain focused on stablecoins and real-world payments. We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to build Tempo’s infrastructure stack and enable the engineering team to ship quickly and securely.

You will scale bare metal and cloud environments, deploy Kubernetes in production, and implement IaC with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD. You’ll optimize developer velocity and help onboard enterprises into crypto, staying at the frontier of performance.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and production cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Rust, Go or Python for tooling.
• Deep Kubernetes production deployment experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
• Experience with monitoring/observability and security hardening of systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the infrastructure that enables the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively.
• Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process to improve developer velocity.
• Maintain Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, and explorer reliability.
• Improve Tempo core developer experience and onboarding for enterprise customers.
• Tackle frontier crypto performance through robust infra.

Skills

Bare metal servers

Cloud environments

Rust

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux

Networking

Ethereum ecosystem

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.

Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.

We’re building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. Our team primarily works in-person out of our San Francisco and NYC offices (with remote flexibility for engineer roles). We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!

The Role

You’ll build out Tempo’s infrastructure stack and ensure the engineering team can ship effectively and efficiently. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at the frontier of crypto.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the infrastructure that allows the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively

• Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process to ensure optimal developer velocity

• Maintaining Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, explorer reliability and more

• Improve Tempo core developer experience

• Helping onboard the largest enterprises directly into crypto. Educate and help them run a validators.

• Working at the frontier of crypto performance

Qualifications

• Proven experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems

• Proficient at building tooling and scripts using Rust, Go or Python

• Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes within production environments and working with IaC and configuration management tools like Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD

• Skilled at deploying monitoring, alerting and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), securing and hardening those systems, and troubleshooting issues with engineers

• Knowledgeable about Linux and networking, and troubleshooting on Linux systems

• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem

Attributes

• High motor

• Razor-sharp thinker with precise command of language

• Concise, evidence-based communicator

• Excellent organizational and logistical skills

• Intense curiosity and open-mindedness

• Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves

• Growth mindset