# Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (Americas, US time zones) at Startale Group Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (Americas, US time zones) at Startale Group in Remote. Remote, full-time. Posted April 7, 2024. - Company: Startale Group - Location: Remote - Workplace: Remote - Job type: Full-time - Experience: 5+ years - Posted: 2024-04-07 - Apply: https://startale.com/career/4016929008?gh_jid=4016929008 - Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-devops-infrastructure-engineer-americas-us-time-zones-startale-group-akzpp1 ## Description **Remote (Americas, US time zones) ยท Full time** ### About Startale Startale builds onchain finance as a vertically integrated stack: the chains, a JPY stablecoin, payments, and a consumer app. With SBI Group we are building **Strium**, a fully onchain exchange; we issued **JPYSC**, Japan's first trust-licensed JPY stablecoin; with Sony Group we operate **Soneium**; and **Startale App**, used by 210k monthly users, is the front door to all of it. We raised a ~$63M Series A from Sony, SBI and others. The team is ~70 people across 20 nationalities, and English is the working language of engineering. ### Why US time zones Our engineering team is spread across Asia and Europe. This role anchors infrastructure coverage in US hours: you will be the infrastructure owner awake when most of the team is not. You must be physically based in a US time zone (UTC-8 to UTC-5), whether in the US, Canada, or Latin America. Working US hours from another region does not qualify. ### About the Role We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational systems behind StartaleApp, Strium, and other products across the Startale ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on role: you design, build, and operate production infrastructure end to end, from cloud and Kubernetes to CI/CD, databases, observability, and security. You will work primarily on two demanding products. **StartaleApp** is a user-facing Web3 wallet and application platform whose backend combines traditional cloud services and databases with blockchain nodes, indexers, and transaction processing. **Strium**, built with SBI Group, is a next-generation decentralized exchange bringing Japanese equities onchain, with a fully onchain order book and a consensus layer purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput trading. Both run under high load, strict availability and security requirements, and real production conditions. We want someone who builds infrastructure rather than maintains it: comfortable making architectural decisions, automating everything that repeats, and diagnosing complex production issues. Experience running blockchain infrastructure is a significant advantage, and a SecOps or cloud security background is a major plus. ### What You Will Do - Own infrastructure architecture and operations for StartaleApp, Strium, and other production systems. - Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS: Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, scaling, upgrades. - Manage everything as code: Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines with safe rollouts and rollback. - Operate PostgreSQL in production: availability, replication, backups, performance, recovery. - Build observability across infrastructure, applications, databases, and blockchain nodes, with alerting that catches incidents early. - Run blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC services, indexers) and monitor it down to protocol level: sync, connectivity, transaction processing. - Design disaster recovery and failover for critical systems, and harden security: access control, secrets, vulnerability management, monitoring. - Diagnose production incidents across the full stack, and remove operational bottlenecks with automation instead of manual procedure. ### What You Bring - 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering. - A track record of building and operating production infrastructure for highly available systems, where availability directly affected users or the business. - Deep hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, and Linux experience. - Infrastructure as code with Terraform, GitOps practices, and CI/CD pipeline design. - Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS, service discovery. - PostgreSQL in production: replication, backups, recovery, performance. - High-availability design, incident response, root-cause analysis, and capacity planning. - Hands-on experience operating blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC, indexers, validators, or data pipelines) and an understanding of how distributed blockchain networks fail. ### Strong Plus - **Security:** SecOps or cloud security experience, hardening production environments, AWS security services and IAM design. - **Platform breadth:** bare-metal operations, Helm or ArgoCD, messaging systems such as Kafka or NATS, observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry. - **Blockchain depth:** operating chain infrastructure at significant scale; Ethereum, Polkadot, or L2 ecosystems. - **Domain:** financial, trading, or other latency-sensitive systems; using AI tools in infrastructure workflows; Go, Rust, or TypeScript. ### How We Think About This Role We care less about specific tools and more about how you engineer: - Build infrastructure, not just operate it, and own problems from architecture through production. - Design for high load and partial failure, and automate what repeats. - Diagnose across the full stack, from Kubernetes and networking to databases and blockchain nodes. - Treat infrastructure as a product, with users, reliability requirements, and long-term maintenance needs. ### Why Join - Build and operate the core infrastructure behind StartaleApp and Strium, including a DEX designed for high-throughput, low-latency trading. - One role spanning cloud, Kubernetes, distributed systems, databases, and blockchain infrastructure. - Significant ownership and direct product impact in a small, highly technical team. - Competitive compensation and equity.