About the company
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. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
Job Summary
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
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