Infrastructure Engineer

About Injective Labs

Injective Labs is trailblazing a new dawn for Web3 enabled finance. We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry. Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform that is optimized for building decentralized finance applications. Interoperability is at the core of Injective, which is natively integrated with chains such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Solana. Developers can rapidly launch premier financial applications suited for mass adoption using Injective’s infrastructure and specialized DeFi primitives such as the world’s first fully on-chain order book.Our team has decades of experience spearheading the largest financial institutions and tech organizations. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by leading firms such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.

About the role

Injective Labs is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to help design, build, and operate the core infrastructure powering the protocol.

This role spans both cloud and bare metal environments, supporting high-performance blockchain systems and low-latency trading workloads. We are looking for someone who can operate at scale, move quickly, and bring strong ownership over critical systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Injective’s infrastructure across cloud and bare metal environments

• Design, deploy, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters

• Manage application delivery using Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps workflows)

• Build and maintain infrastructure using Pulumi and Ansible

• Deploy, operate, and optimize blockchain nodes and supporting services (validators, indexers, RPC, etc.)

• Design systems for low latency and high throughput, especially for trading and market data workloads

• Operate and scale streaming systems such as Kafka or Redpanda

• Maintain and improve observability across the stack (metrics, logs, tracing), with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and optionally Signoz

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Kubernetes, networking, and Linux systems

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support product and protocol development

• Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across performance, reliability, and scalability

• Participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical systems

Who you are:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles

• Deep expertise in managing production-quality Kubernetes clusters, with experience in large-scale cluster operation being a significant advantage.

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Helm, ArgoCD, Docker

  • Pulumi and/or Ansible (preferred over Terraform)

  • GCP as a primary cloud, with working knowledge of AWS or Azure

• Experience managing bare metal infrastructure, including provisioning, networking, and performance tuning

• Proven ability to operate high-performance, large-scale systems, ideally in blockchain or trading environments

• Experience with blockchain systems (Ethereum, Tendermint/Cosmos SDK, or similar)

• Experience with high-throughput messaging systems (Kafka, Redpanda)

• Strong understanding of Linux systems and low-level debugging

• Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency

• Familiarity with observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; Signoz is a plus)

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs)

• Knowledge of advanced security practices, database administration (ie. mongoDB), and high-throughput message queues.

• Fluent in English

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

• Based in a timezone with significant overlap with US Eastern Time (ET)

Nice to Have:

• Experience operating validators or participating in blockchain networks

• Experience in latency-sensitive environments (trading, HFT, market making)

• Experience with production security practices

• Experience with databases such as Postgres or MongoDB

Why work with us?

• Competitive salary and INJ token award

• Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours

• Unlimited PTO

• Equipment

• Home Office Stipend

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry.

• Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Global team meet ups

As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

We will only contact candidates using emails from the @injectivelabs.org domain. If you are approached by any other account or domain regarding this position, it was not sent by us. Please stay cautious and report any suspicious communication.