The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders who are on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralized tech. We believe that the Monad blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world.
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep Linux expertise and a strong track record of building infrastructure and testing automation from scratch. You'll join a small, talented team of systems experts to extend the testing, tooling, and operational backbone of a high-performance, next-generation Layer 1 blockchain.
Build and maintain testnets and test automation for components of the Monad blockchain
Prototype new deployment patterns across validator and full-node topologies
Design and run performance benchmarks and load tests to surface bottlenecks before they reach production
Drive observability, alerting, and security across the stack
Define best practices for node operators & support them
Develop tooling for internal & external use
Participate in on-call rotation for production support
2+ years of DevOps experience at a professional RPC provider / professional validator company / L1 blockchain
3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (Terraform, Ansible)
2+ years of experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficient in bare metal server management and scripting
Proficient in at least one back-end language such as Python or Go
Hands-on experience running highly available containerized systems on Kubernetes, including packaging (Helm) and GitOps-style deployment (FluxCD, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions)
Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
Comfort with network setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting at the systems level
Experience operating open-source observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar)
Proficient with command-line git
Able to juggle competing priorities and move quickly during incidents
Fluent written and spoken English
Challenging problems. You’ll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact.
Endless Opportunity for Impact. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad’s core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance.
The right team. You’ll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated.
Culture We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output.
Strong Ecosystem The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors.
Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more.
We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others.
Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
