Senior DevOps Engineer

LI.FI is simplifying multi-chain DeFi for traditional financial institutions, fintechs and service providers by offering a unified API to access all on-chain liquidity across major blockchains for best price same-chain and cross-chain swaps. We are a passionate team on a mission to enable a fairer, more decentralised world. Apart from the tech, we care a lot about user experience and aim to make complex technologies accessible to everyone.

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A quick run-down of the job

We are looking for a senior DevOps engineer with extensive experience in platform engineering who will help to bring our infrastructure to the next level. You will be part of a highly experienced DevOps team, reporting to the DevOps Lead, responsible for all infrastructure, CI/CD, DevEx, automation, resilience, high availability and o11y. You will work closely with our development teams to build critical features, design new solutions and support the route to live of multiple applications. Please note: This role requires you to be located in EMEA. Your application will not be considered otherwise.

What you'll do

• Design and implement new infrastructure, tooling and features, to industry best practices

• Propose new solutions and improvements to existing technology, process and codebase, with associated costs and benefits

• Develop our o11y to match industry best standards

• Implement new processes and workflows for alerting

• Gather requirements from developers and distill them into actions

• Guide developers to use DevOps and SRE best practices and support them with their route to live

• Develop and maintain a superb DevEx for our application teams

• Optimise our in-house tooling and automation

• Anticipate issues in our lower environment and take proactive steps to prevent production incidents

• Deliver new features for developers

• …and much more

Our tech stack includes:

• Github for git and Github Actions for CI/CD

• MongoDB Atlas and Elasticache/Redis for our data

• CloudFlare for our CDN related

• AWS for the majority of our infra, with a subset on GCP

• Terraform wrapped by Terrgrunt for infrastructure as code

• EKS for the majority of our compute, with a subset on GKE

• ArgoCD for our application deployments

• kube-prometheus-stack for monitoring

• Hashicorp Vault for secrets management

What makes a good candidate

• Expert knowledge and production experience with kubernetes

• Extensive experience with terraform/opentofu and ideally terragrunt across large codebases, with multiple providers

• Good linux fundamentals

• Strong bash scripting skills

• Solid scripting or programming in at least one language (Python, Go etc)

• Use and administration of ideally ArgoCD or other GitOps tools, at scale

• Highly proficient with AWS. Extensive experience with GCP is nice to have

• Good understanding of containerisation i.e. Docker, containerd

• Monitoring and Observability as second nature. Ideally experience with Prometheus, Grafana and OTEL

• Security first mindset

• Experience with FinOps

• Proven track record of designing and managing complex CI/CD pipelines

• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills

• Proactivity, strong ability to work well within a team and across teams

• Technical independence and proven record of delivering complex initiatives

• Interest in the blockchain space, a solid and deeper (technical) understanding is a plus

• Any relevant certifications a nice to have e.g. from AWS/Google or CKA etc

• Able to overlap the team core work hours (EMEA timezones)

We encourage you to apply if you feel your experience and skills equip you for this job but are not listed here!

Company culture

• Embracing the differences

  • Embrace your own differences

  • Respect and welcome the unique qualities of others

  • See others’ differences as an opportunity to grow

• Own it, do it

  • Own tasks end-to-end

  • Hold yourself to a high bar for execution

  • Make bold decisions, and be accountable

  • Understand your limitations and seek for help

• Fail forward

  • Try - don’t be afraid to fail

  • Learn - don’t make the same mistake twice

  • Adapt - grow with the experience

• Have fun together

  • Take the time to get to know and understand each other better

  • Don’t take yourself too seriously and keep it light-hearted

  • Fun should be coming from a place of love and respect

What you’ll get

• Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023 and Vietnam in 2024 were a blast, Marrakech in March 2025 was blast-ier; let’s see what happens in 2026!)

• 30 days of PTO

• Flexible remote days

• Flexible working hours

• Equity participation from day 1

• Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment)

• An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months (pro-rated the first year)

• A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.

If you join us as an independent contractor, you’re only entitled to the first five benefits of this list.

Application process

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LI.FI is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. Join us in our dedication to fostering a workplace that values and respects each team member's unique contributions.

Shortlisted candidates will undergo a comprehensive interview process, including a people operations interview, a take-home assignment, a meet-the-team & founder interview, and a reference check.

For more information, visit our page detailing our hiring process!