Platform Reliability Technical Lead
When the engineer on shift cannot work out why the chain is doing what it is doing, they call you.
The chain is the network behind The Clearing House's On-Chain Money Initiative, expected to launch in the first half of 2027. You would be the final escalation across the production estate, from the OP Stack and private Besu L1 to the Overledger Gateway and Settlement Bridge. You would co-own service levels and release gating, and set how the team works: current runbooks, alerts that mean something, postmortems that change something.
This role exists so that someone excellent can stay technical rather than move into management. You would still rotate through on-call alongside the team.
You will need
- Serious depth in reliability or production engineering. You are already the person others escalate to.
- Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm at the level where you debug them.
- Distributed systems where state matters and restarting is not a strategy.
- To write things down. If the only record of how the platform works is in your head, nothing has been fixed.
Useful, not essential
- Blockchain node operations, particularly Besu or another Ethereum client.
- You have read consensus client source to explain a production behavior.
There is more to this than we can put in an advertisement. If it sounds like your kind of problem, apply and we will tell you the rest on a call.