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- Full-time
- Posted
- 11 November 2026
- Apply by
- 10 January 2027
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.
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 the role
The DevOps Engineer strengthens and scales the infrastructure behind Midnight's blockchain networks, with a focus on managing and automating Midnight validator nodes.
- 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
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
About Midnight Foundation
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.
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