DevOps/SRE Engineer

About Chronicle Labs

Chronicle Protocol is a cutting-edge decentralized Oracle solution delivering secure, transparent, and verifiable real-time data. With over $10 billion in collateral secured for major DeFi ecosystems, we empower institutions, builders, and tokenized asset issuers with unmatched trust and transparency. In addition to our continued partnership with Sky (formerly MakerDAO), we are building the world’s first fully verifiable, cost-efficient, scalable, and decentralized oracle. Recently raised $12 million in seed funding and backed by highly reputable VC’s and angel investors, our proven track record in both crypto-native and real-world asset data infrastructure underscores our commitment to innovation and excellence.

This is an opportunity to join a top tier crypto startup at the forefront of blockchain technology and DeFi. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer based in Asian Pacific time zones to work alongside our Senior DevOps Engineer. We are a lean team, so this role is for someone who enjoys being hands-on and having full ownership and autonomy over their work.

Key Responsibilities

• Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable applications on AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). This includes heavy use of Helm for package management and adhering to cloud-native architectural best practices.
• LINUX: Proficient in Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• GitOps Implementation: Drive the adoption and maintenance of our GitOps pipeline using the ArgoCD suite, including Argo Workflows, to ensure infrastructure and application configuration is managed declaratively and automatically.
• CI/CD: Strong understanding of cicd pipelines. Github Actions and other tools.
• SRE & Monitoring: Manage and evolve our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and monitoring stack (LGTM: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir) to ensure proactive alerting, robust observability, and rapid incident response.
• Decentralized Infrastructure: Deploy, manage, and debug EVM and ETH RPC nodes, optimizing for performance, reliability, and security. Deep understanding of node operation and debugging is required.
• Documentation: Champion a Documentation-Driven Development (DDD) approach, ensuring all systems, processes, and architectures are thoroughly documented and kept up-to-date.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in a follow-the-sun shared on-call rotation with the global team, ensuring the continuous availability of our services.
• Demonstrated experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation strategies.

Required Skills and Experience

• Cloud Expertise: Proven, hands-on experience managing infrastructure on AWS, particularly EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, and IAM.
• Container Orchestration: Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, including advanced configuration, networking, and security. Container runtimes crucial.
• Observability: Extensive experience with the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) or similar modern monitoring and logging tools.
• Automation: Practical experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Argo Workflows.
• Blockchain Infrastructure: Direct experience running, debugging, and maintaining Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Ethereum (ETH) RPC nodes (e.g., Geth, Erigon, etc.).
• Coding & Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, or Bash).
• Documentation: A commitment to high-quality, clear, and comprehensive documentation following a DDD philosophy.
• Event Driving Architecture: building, debug and improve on various messaging and event bus architectures (Kafka, Nats, etc)
• Strong skills in designing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and other CDKs

Hard Requirement

• Time zone: Must be based around the GMT+8 time zone (e.g., Singapore, Hong Kong, Perth, Shanghai) to align with core team operations.

You will stand out if

• Knowledge of Web3 and a keen interest to learn more.
• Familiarity with working in a startup environment.
• Experience working and collaborating in a distributed digital native environment
• Past experience managing Blockchain RPC nodes
• You understand the philosophy of DevOps and Developer Self Service
• Embrace Site Reliability Engineering
• Understanding of Fallacies of distributed computing
• Believer of the 12 Factor App

What We Offer

An opportunity to work with veterans in the crypto space building on the bleeding edge of technology. Working on supporting some of the largest initiatives in Web3.

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible payment options: USD / EUR / USDC
• 6 weeks vacation
• Remote working environment
• Flexible schedule
• Annual offsite to meet up with the team

As part of the application process we require the completion of a KYC procedure to verify identity and location.