Platform Engineer (Remote - USA)

Tempo; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempo is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to build and scale our production stack. You will ensure the engineering team can ship quickly and reliably, from bare metal to cloud, in a high-stakes crypto environment.

You will optimize Kubernetes, IaC workflows, monitoring, and security, and help onboard large enterprises into crypto by educating validators. Join a fast-moving team advancing real-world payments on the blockchain frontier.

Qualifications

• Maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and clouds for production systems.
• Production Kubernetes experience essential.
• IaC tools: Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD in deployment workflows.
• Monitoring/observability setup with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Linux networking and troubleshooting expertise.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the infrastructure enabling the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively.
• Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process for optimal velocity.
• Maintaining Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, explorer reliability and more.
• Improve Tempo core developer experience.
• Help onboard the largest enterprises into crypto; educate and support validators.
• Work at the frontier of crypto performance.

Skills

Rust/Go/Python

Linux networking

DevOps tooling

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. 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

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