Site Reliability Engineer
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Site Reliability Engineer
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The Wormhole Foundation
Our mission is to empower passionate people in the research and development of blockchain interoperability technologies. We support teams building secure, open-source, and decentralized products within the Wormhole ecosystem.
The Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Wormhole Foundation is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to improve the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Wormholeâs production infrastructure. This role focuses on uptime, observability, deployment workflows, and incident response across critical blockchain and networking services. The SRE will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and validator partners to ensure Wormhole services operate at a minimum 99.99% uptime, excluding scheduled maintenance windows.
What you'll be doing:
Act as first responder and incident commander during production incidents
Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and retrospective documentation
Build detailed incident timelines and preventative runbooks
Respond to incidents related to: performance issues, CCQ failures or degraded throughput, observability pipeline outages, and core Wormhole products
Deliver remediation recommendations and implement approved fixes
Improve reliability and uptime across all Wormhole services
Strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting systems
Harden infrastructure for security and operational resiliency
Enhance deployment workflows and reduce operational friction
Lead incident response, analysis, and continuous improvement
Support operational tooling used by engineering, DevOps, and validator partners
Who you are:
Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experience