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Ritual

Validator Engineer

Ritual
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11 months ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level / Senior
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Responsibilities

  • Own the uptime, performance, and reliability of Ritual’s validators.
  • Manage upgrades, snapshots, and sync performance.
  • Build and automate bare-metal and cloud deployments for validators.
  • Orchestrate client upgrades and hard-forks with zero downtime.
  • Profile and patch critical paths for optimal client performance.
  • Produce run-books and maintain clear documentation.
  • Support validator operators via Discord to ensure healthy staking participation.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience operating high-availability distributed systems.
  • Direct experience running PoS validators on EVM-based chains.
  • Proficient in Go and Rust, with the ability to read and debug client code.
  • Strong grasp of protocol-level concepts such as fork-choice and state sync.
  • Expertise in Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD workflows.
  • Advanced Linux user with deep networking knowledge and focus on security.
  • Passionate about observability, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation package with annual discretionary bonus.
  • 100% of premiums covered on high-quality healthcare.
  • Aggressive company 401k match.
  • Fully remote and/or hybrid work options.
  • Participation in virtual and in-person events.