Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

As Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at LayerZero, you lead a team of SREs responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our blockchain node infrastructure and platform services. You balance people leadership with hands-on technical judgment, staying technically sharp enough to guide architecture decisions and jump into critical incidents as the team scales alongside LayerZero's omnichain vision.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of SREs, setting technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations
• Own the reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure across a variety of DLTs, including SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response
• Partner with Engineering leadership and Product/Platform teams to align reliability investments with business priorities
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices, with a focus on Kubernetes and Helm at scale
• Establish and continuously improve on-call structure, incident detection/triage automation, and postmortem culture
• Stay hands-on: review designs, dig into complex incidents, and set the technical bar for the team

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years directly managing or leading a technical team
• Deep familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure, including validator/full/archive nodes and RPC optimization
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Golang, with the judgment to know when to write code versus delegate
• Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and distributed systems and high-availability design
• 3+ years running Kubernetes in production, including Helm chart authoring at scale
• A track record building or scaling an on-call/incident response process
• Excellent communication skills to represent the team to leadership and hire and retain strong engineers

About LayerZero Labs

Founded in 2021, LayerZero Labs enables cross-chain developers to build dApps using a simple, generic messaging protocol, unifying the power of individual blockchains. The company is backed by top-tier investors including a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, and Delphi Digital.