Software Engineer Generalist - Devops

Aztec; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote‑first culture

Competitive salary + equity/token options

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Health, dental, and retirement benefits

Conference and learning budget

Job summary

A blockchain privacy startup is looking for a DevOps Engineering Lead to manage internal platforms for code development and secure cloud infrastructure. This role requires over 7 years of industry experience with a focus on automation and cloud platforms. You will be responsible for designing CI/CD pipelines and ensuring best practices in observability and incident response. The position offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to work in a flexible, remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the internal platforms for developing, testing, and deploying code.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to minimize lead time.
• Architect and implement secure cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Automation

Scripting

Infrastructure‑as‑Code

Container orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

GCP/AWS

Job description

About Aztec

At Aztec, our goal is to add privacy to Ethereum.

In the current public blockchain paradigm, users and entities unknowingly broadcast data in the public, compromising privacy and security to get trustlessness.

Not only are unencrypted blockchains inherently privacy‑exposing, they require significant redundancy to compute and verify the legitimacy of transactions.

Implementing scalable encryption in a public blockchain paradigm requires cutting‑edge math and engineering. Thankfully, our team of scientists and engineers invented Plonk, the industry‑standard zkSNARK, and Noir, the universal language of zero knowledge.

Now, we’re building a first‑of‑its‑kind Layer 2 with private smart contracts. This requires new cryptographic primitives, a zero‑knowledge DSL for writing contracts, a privacy‑friendly execution environment, a carefully designed set of circuits that prove the validity of the chain to L1, a decentralized block‑building and proving mechanism, and a top‑tier user and developer experience. And it’s now time to bring it to market.

We’ve raised $125 million from industry‑leading investors including a16z crypto, Paradigm, Variant, ConsenSys, and a_capital, and we’re growing quickly.

Role Focus

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineering Lead who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and is excited by the prospect of growing a team with the mandate to 10x our current development velocity while preserving quality and security.

The role is based out of either London, UK / New York City, US.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the internal platforms critical to our ability to develop, test, deploy, and monitor our code
• Design and implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to minimize lead time across the stack
• Develop and enforce best practices for observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response to minimize MTTR
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
• Lead technical design discussions, post‑mortems, and architecture reviews as they pertain to the systems described above
• Identify and proactively address performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities as they pertain to the systems described above
• Keep a cool head when on‑call
• Do all the other good stuff that pragmatic, seasoned engineers do

Desired Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, bare metal and distributed systems
• Proven experience building, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure
• Hands‑on proficiency with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, etc.), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong background in automation, scripting, and tooling (Bash; you will be writing lots of code in this role)
• Excellent ability to diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
• Self‑starter mindset with the ability to balance technical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact
• Experience in Web3 or high‑growth startups, a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication (we’re serious)
• Comfortable working autonomously and asynchronously within a distributed team
• Located in or able to work within GMT to EST time zones

Our Stack

• Typescript and C++
• LMDB for persistence
• Discv5 and libp2p
• Ethereum as L1
• Terraform
• OpenTelemetry
• Grafana
• GCP
• AWS
• K8s

What We Offer

• Flexible, remote‑first culture with HQ in London
• Competitive salary + equity/token options
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Health, dental, and retirement benefits (based on location)
• Regular offsites for team collaboration and bonding
• Conference and learning budget for continual professional development
• A chance to work on truly cutting‑edge zero‑knowledge infrastructure with some of the best minds in the field

Aztec Labs is an equal opportunity employer and we value creativity, diversity, and intellectual curiosity. If you're passionate about leveraging your creative talents to make a real‑world impact, and if you want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of digital privacy, then we would love to hear from you.