Infrastructure Engineer, Americas

Job Overview

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Scale and support global networks running baremetal servers in dozens of data centers


• Productionize blockchain software for thousands of geo-diverse nodes that depend on reliable and optimized networking


• Dive deep into network issues to maximize uptime and robustness


• Identify operational pain points and build automated tools for iterative improvement


• Interface effectively between node operators and core developers to define best practices for operators


• Participate in on-call rotation for production support

Required Qualifications

• Deep experience with network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP) and debugging related hardware issues


• Significant experience optimizing container technologies (docker, kubernetes, terraform, ansible, puppet), especially as they relate to networking


• Highly proficient with command-line Linux and git


• Proficient in at least one back-end development language such as Python, Go, or C++


• Experience writing scripts for deploying and maintaining infrastructure (Linux installations, clusters, and networks)


• Experience evaluating and improving observability and security practices