Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.
Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.
We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.
We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. Our team primarily works in-person out of our San Francisco and NYC offices (with remote flexibility for engineer roles). We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
The Role
You’ll build out Tempo’s infrastructure stack and ensure the engineering team can ship effectively and efficiently. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at the frontier of crypto.
Responsibilities
Implement and manage the infrastructure that allows the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively
Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process to ensure optimal developer velocity
Maintaining Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, explorer reliability and more
Improve Tempo core developer experience
Helping onboard the largest enterprises directly into crypto. Educate and help them run a validators.
Working at the frontier of crypto performance
Qualifications
Proven experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems
Proficient at building tooling and scripts using Rust, Go or Python
Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes within production environments and working with IaC and configuration management tools like Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD
Skilled at deploying monitoring, alerting and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), securing and hardening those systems, and troubleshooting issues with engineers
Knowledgeable about Linux and networking, and troubleshooting on Linux systems
Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem
Attributes
High motor
Razor-sharp thinker with precise command of language
Concise, evidence-based communicator
Excellent organizational and logistical skills
Intense curiosity and open-mindedness
Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves
Growth mindset