DevOps Engineer- Blockchain Infrastructure

Location: Remote – candidates based in eligible locations across Asia, Europe, or LATAM, with 1–2 hours of daily overlap with US or EU time zones

Schedule

Flexible (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday), with participation in an on-call rota

About Midnight

Midnight is building a regulatory-friendly data protection blockchain designed to safeguard sensitive commercial and personal data while enabling developers, enterprises, institutions, and ecosystem partners to build privacy-preserving applications.

The Midnight Operations team works with internal Engineering teams and our external infrastructure partner, BCW, to run the secure, reliable, and scalable multi-cloud and bare-metal platforms that power Midnight deployments.

Role Summary

The DevOps Engineer strengthens and scales the infrastructure behind Midnight's blockchain networks, with a focus on managing and automating Midnight validator nodes. The role reports to the Director of Protocol Operations and works closely with internal engineering teams and BCW, progressively taking ownership of day-to-day infrastructure operations.

Keeps critical blockchain infrastructure available and performant, targeting 99.99% uptime

Manages and automates validator operations across multi-cloud and bare-metal environments

Helps guide the transition from a federated to a fully decentralised validator network

Build and configure dev, test and mainnet environments for blockchain and development partners

Build best in class Telemetry tooling and ETL dashboards to support remote monitoring

This is a very hands-on role with focus on ability to build solutions and work under own initiative

Core Responsibilities

Protocol Reliability & Incident Response

Ensure 99.99% uptime of critical blockchain infrastructure and implement reliability improvements

Participate in the on-call rota, mitigating and resolving production incidents and writing blameless post-mortems

Troubleshoot testing and deployment issues, resolving protocol-level bottlenecks ahead of mainnet upgrades

Validator Operations & Decentralisation

Manage, maintain, and automate Midnight validator nodes for performance, reliability, and scale

Develop and maintain open-source tools for Midnight infrastructure across multi-cloud and bare-metal

Support the transition from a foundation-coordinated federated validator model to a fully decentralised network

Optimization of the roll out templates for FNO’s and future Stake Pool Operators

Review and recommend feedback and monthly reports on FNO and internal teams

Security, Performance & Delivery

Strengthen security posture by identifying vulnerabilities and improving security controls

Identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to optimise infrastructure and validator performance

Build and maintain secure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and other CI/CD tools

Infrastructure Ownership & Collaboration

Progressively own day-to-day infrastructure management, coordinating closely with BCW and internal teams

Share technical feedback and recommendations, and proactively drive automation and improvements

Requirements

Recommended Experience & Qualifications

3+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including at least 1 year with blockchain infrastructure

Practical experience managing blockchain nodes or validator infrastructure

Strong Linux administration skills and working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes

Proficiency with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools

Strong shell scripting, with knowledge of Rust, Go, or Python

Experience configuring, scaling, and optimising cloud infrastructure, ideally on AWS and Google Cloud

Experience of using infrastructure as code (IAC) using TerraForm and/or OpenTofu

Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins

Strong grasp of infrastructure security principles and practical improvements

Clear communication and documentation, including infrastructure designs and recommendations for internal and external teams

Remote from an eligible location in Asia, Europe, or LATAM, with 1–2 hours of daily US or EU overlap, a flexible schedule (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday), and on-call participation

Bonus

GitOps and Nix; or work in a small, fast-moving technology company

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