Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Zora, a cutting-edge on-chain social network, as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. You will collaborate with the development team to build and maintain a scalable and highly available infrastructure. Your responsibilities include designing, building, and delivering software to enhance infrastructure performance, providing technical input, operating core systems, automating workflows, and participating in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Go or Python, large-scale system design, blockchain infrastructure, database technologies, and monitoring practices. Zora offers a comprehensive benefits package including top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible time off, equity, and additional company perks.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Go (preferred) or Python
• Experience designing large-scale systems, breaking down complex problems, and aligning with cross-functional engineering teams
• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, including RPC nodes and IPFS
• Strong experience with database technologies such as MongoDB and Postgres
• Solid understanding of monitoring and observability practices using tools like Datadog and/or OpenTelemetry
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, from orchestration layers down to system runtimes
• Clear and effective communication skills, with a collaborative and service-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver software to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Zora’s infrastructure platform
• Provide technical and strategic input to shape the direction of the infrastructure platform
• Operate and maintain core infrastructure systems in service of enhancing the developer experience
• Automate key infrastructure workflows, including service lifecycle management and critical operational processes
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and respond to production incidents as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure and/or platform engineering, with a focus on software development
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
• Operational experience with distributed storage systems like Ceph
• Familiarity with Python’s asyncio programming model
• Experience with frontend serverless platforms like Vercel, Cloudflare Pages Functions, etc
• Understanding of Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, including L2 architectures like Polygon, Optimism, and Base
• Knowledge of L2 scaling solutions such as optimistic rollups, zk-rollups, Plasma, sidechains, and bridges
• Passion for learning and exploring new technologies and paradigms

Benefits

Zora provides top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance, with a flexible time-off policy, equity, and additional company perks (including stipends for: L&D, internet/phone bill, Ease of Life, and more!)