Manager of Site Reliability Engineering

Join LayerZero as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). In this role, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our blockchain node infrastructure and platform services. You will set technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations for the team, while also staying hands-on with architecture decisions and critical incidents. You will partner with engineering leadership and product/platform teams to align reliability investments with business priorities, and drive infrastructure-as-code practices.

Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure across a variety of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), capacity planning, and incident response.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices, with a focus on Kubernetes and Helm at scale, and establish and continuously improve on-call structure, incident detection/triage automation, and postmortem culture.

Requirements

• 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.)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years running Kubernetes in production, including Helm chart authoring at scale
• Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and distributed systems / high-availability design
• 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
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Golang, with the judgment to know when to write code vs. delegate