Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Job description

**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