Platform Engineer (Remote - USA)

tempo-xyz; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempo is building a scalable, low-cost on-chain payments backbone. We’re hiring an infrastructure-focused engineer to help ship rapidly and reliably on the Tempo platform.

You’ll deploy and maintain production-grade infrastructure, champion devops velocity, and push performance improvements across Kubernetes, Terraform, and monitoring stacks. Join a team of crypto-optimists redefining crypto infrastructure.

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

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

Skills

Bare metal & cloud infra

Rust/Go/Python

Kubernetes

IaC: Terraform/Helm/ArgoCD

Monitoring/observability

Linux & networking

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