ABOUT THE ROLEAt LayerZero, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the intersection of software and systems engineering, dedicated to crafting and maintaining large-scale, resilient systems. Our goal is to ensure that all LayerZero services - ranging from critical internal systems to those external users interact with - are reliable, meet the uptime expectations of our users, and continuously evolve at a swift pace. Our SRE professionals will monitor our system's capacity and performance to uphold these standards.
As Manager of SRE, you'll lead a team of engineers responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our blockchain node infrastructure and platform services - while staying technically sharp enough to guide architecture decisions and jump into critical incidents. You'll balance people leadership with hands-on technical judgment, shaping how the team works, grows, and scales alongside LayerZero.
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Lead and develop a team of SREs - setting technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations.
- Own the reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure across a variety of DLTs, including SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response.
- Partner with Engineering leadership and Product/Platform teams to align reliability investments with business priorities.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices, with a focus on Kubernetes and Helm at scale.
- Establish and continuously improve on-call structure, incident detection/triage automation, and postmortem culture.
- Stay hands-on: review designs, dig into complex incidents, and set the technical bar for the team.
ABOUT YOU- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years directly managing or leading a technical team.
- Deep familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure (validator/full/archive nodes, RPC optimization, etc.).
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Golang, with the judgment to know when to write code vs. delegate.
- Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and distributed systems / high-availability design.
- 3+ years running Kubernetes in production, including Helm chart authoring at scale.
- Track record building or scaling an on-call/incident response process.
- Excellent communication skills - able to represent the team to leadership and hire/retain strong engineers.
