Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Asymmetric Research:
Asymmetric Research is a specialized security firm focused on long-term, integrated partnerships with L1/L2 blockchains and DeFi protocols. We help teams build resilient systems, strengthen security posture, and proactively address emerging threats.
Culture:
AR is a fully remote organization and members of our team have been strongly committed to open-source values for decades, having worked at organizations with deep open-source roots and strong security programs including Google, Netflix, Mozilla, Stripe, and Jump Crypto. We pride ourselves on maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality, trust, and professionalism.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join Asymmetric Research. In this role, you will design, operate, and scale mission-critical blockchain infrastructure supporting leading L1/L2 networks and DeFi protocols, working within a high-trust team to deliver secure, highly available, production-grade systems while driving automation, reliability, and operational excellence across our globally distributed environments.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain a globally distributed blockchain infrastructure fleet
- Design, architect, deploy, and operate production-grade infrastructure services
- Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code across development, staging, and production environments
- Ensure high availability and performance of mission-critical systems
- Contribute to automation, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling
- Monitor system health and respond to incidents with strong troubleshooting fundamentals
- Uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and operational discipline
What we're looking for:
- 2+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Strong experience managing Linux systems and network infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with load balancers and high-availability technologies (e.g., HAProxy, ALB/ELB)
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack)
- Solid troubleshooting skills across hardware, networking, and software systems
- Development experience in Go, Python, or Rust
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
- Experience with open-source monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager)
Good to have, not required:
- Experience operating distributed systems using tools such as Nomad or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, or Move-based ecosystems
Benefits:
- 25+ days of paid time off
- Comprehensive stipends for home office, wellbeing, professional development, and more
- Pension/401(k) programs
- Life insurance
- Premium healthcare
- Competitive base salary
- Lucrative bonus programs

Employment type
FullTime

Work arrangement
Yes