Site Reliability Engineer

Company: LayerZero Labs
Location: Vancouver, CA
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: $120,000–$200,000 USD per year

About the Company

Founded in 2021, LayerZero's vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains. LayerZero is funded by leading investors including a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, and Delphi Digital.

About the Role

At LayerZero, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the intersection of software and systems engineering, dedicated to crafting and maintaining large-scale, resilient systems. The goal is to ensure that all LayerZero services—ranging from critical internal systems to those external users interact with—are reliable, meet the uptime expectations of users, and continuously evolve at a swift pace. SRE professionals will monitor system capacity and performance to uphold these standards. Software development efforts aim to enhance system efficiency, develop robust infrastructure, and reduce manual workload through automation.

As a member of the SRE team, you'll tackle the unique challenges of scaling at LayerZero, leveraging skills in coding, algorithmic problem-solving, complexity analysis, and designing systems at scale. The team values intellectual curiosity, effective problem-solving, and openness to different ideas.

Responsibilities

• Build, monitor, and maintain blockchain node infrastructure for a variety of DLTs, ensuring reliability and performance
• Collaborate with product and platform engineers to proactively address reliability, scalability, and observability
• Develop scalable infrastructure using code, with a focus on Kubernetes Helm charts
• Automate incident detection, triage, and resolution processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation for systems owned by the team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role
• Deep familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure (e.g., running validator/full/archive nodes, RPC optimization, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in Typescript or Golang development—with ability to build tools, services, or automation
• Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and systems administration
• Strong background in distributed system design and high availability architecture
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes, including Helm chart authoring
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, problem-solving mindset

Compensation

Salary is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. LayerZero is a total compensation company. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

Equal Opportunity

LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.