Senior DevOps & Infra Engineer - Kubernetes, Cloud

Startale; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Ownership of core infra

Job summary

Startale is seeking a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate the core production stack for a Web3 wallet and high-throughput DEX supporting Japanese equities. You will cover cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, databases, observability, security, and blockchain node operations.

The role is hands-on and requires US-hour coverage in UTC-8 to UTC-5, with significant ownership and direct product impact in a small, technically focused team. Equity offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infra engineering.
• Track record of building/operating production infra for highly available systems.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, and Linux experience.
• Infra as code with Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD design.
• Strong networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, service discovery.
• PostgreSQL in production: replication, backups, recovery, performance.
• High-availability design, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning.
• Experience with blockchain infra (nodes, RPC, indexers) or data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure architecture for wallet platform and DEX production systems.
• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infra on AWS and Kubernetes clusters.
• Manage IaC with Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines for safe rollouts.
• Operate PostgreSQL in production, including replication and backups.
• Build observability across infra, apps, DBs, and blockchain nodes.
• Run blockchain infrastructure including nodes, RPC services, and indexers.
• Design disaster recovery and security hardening for critical systems.
• Diagnose incidents with automated solutions and runbooks.

Skills

DevOps engineering

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

GitOps

Incident response

Networking basics

PostgreSQL production

Observability

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

NATS

Job description

Startale is seeking a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate the core production stack for a Web3 wallet and high-throughput DEX supporting Japanese equities. You will cover cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, databases, observability, security, and blockchain node operations.

The role is hands-on and requires US-hour coverage in UTC-8 to UTC-5, with significant ownership and direct product impact in a small, technically focused team. Equity offered.