devops / backend engineer jobs



WalletConnect is an open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking. Started 4 years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. We’re the fastest growing piece of end user experience infrastructure for crypto with over 200+ product integrations and are looking for more team members to help scale our services.

We’re looking for a founding Devops Engineer to join our team to help scale our backend infrastructure and build monitoring services.

Responsibilities:

  • Support a detailed deployment and integration documentation for other team members
  • Implement new web3 technologies into our stack
  • Identify constraints in infrastructure and propose possible solutions to improve performance or reliability
  • Juggle between backend and devops roles depending on demand

Must have:

  • 2+ years experience in a Linux Sysadmin or Devops role
  • AWS preferred, but any cloud provider experience is acceptable
  • Golang/Typescript development experience
  • Monitoring systems: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, or other
  • Nomad or Docker Swarm. Kubernetes experience is also nice to have.
  • Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Practice good Linux security standards
  • Demonstrated experience with managing production services

Nice to have:

  • This is still very much in greenfield and your capabilities can have an impact in the direction this takes
  • Nix/NixOS would be an amazing plus, but not necessary.
  • Experience developing containerized applications
  • Experience operating decentralizing node infrastructure

What WalletConnect offers:

  • $60,000 - $85,000 USD
  • 1-2% company equity (founding team member stake)
  • Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)