Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer

Tempo; Thaba Chweu Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 700 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A blockchain tech company in South Africa seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to build and manage its infrastructure stack. This role involves ensuring efficient development processes, maintaining chain reliability, and onboarding enterprises into crypto. Ideal candidates should have experience with servers and cloud environments, Kubernetes deployment, and scripting in Rust, Go, or Python. The company values high motivation and a growth mindset, offering a fast-paced environment at the forefront of crypto technology.

Qualifications

• Proven experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems.
• Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes within production environments.
• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the infrastructure for effective team shipping.
• Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process.
• Maintain Tempo chain reliability and validator infrastructure.

Skills

Maintaining and scaling bare metal servers

Building tooling and scripts with Rust, Go, or Python

Deploying Kubernetes in production

Using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD

Deploying monitoring and alerting systems

Troubleshooting issues on Linux systems

Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure

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