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