Site Reliability Engineer

The Wormhole FoundationOur 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 EngineerWormhole Foundation is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to improve the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Wormhole’s 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 incidentsLead incident triage, root cause analysis, and retrospective documentationBuild detailed incident timelines and preventative runbooksRespond to incidents related to: performance issues, CCQ failures or degraded throughput, observability pipeline outages, and core Wormhole productsDeliver remediation recommendations and implement approved fixesImprove reliability and uptime across all Wormhole servicesStrengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting systemsHarden infrastructure for security and operational resiliencyEnhance deployment workflows and reduce operational frictionLead incident response, analysis, and continuous improvementSupport operational tooling used by engineering, DevOps, and validator partnersWho you are:Relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experiencePlease mention the word **STIMULATES** and tag RMjAzLjE5Mi4yMjcuMjc= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjAzLjE5Mi4yMjcuMjc=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.