Platform Engineer (Remote - USA)

Title: Platform Engineer (Remote - USA) Location: USA (Remote) Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech. Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century. We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more. We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us! The Role You’ll build out Tempo’s infrastructure stack and ensure the engineering team can ship effectively and efficiently. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology at the frontier of crypto. Responsibilities - Implement and manage the infrastructure that allows the engineering team to ship quickly and effectively - Proactively identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the devops process to ensure optimal developer velocity - Maintaining Tempo chain reliability, validator infrastructure, explorer reliability and more - Improve Tempo core developer experience - Helping onboard the largest enterprises directly into crypto. Educate and help them run a validators. - Working at the frontier of crypto performance Qualifications - Proven experience maintaining and scaling bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems - Proficient at building tooling and scripts using Rust, Go or Python - Deep expertise deploying Kubernetes within production environments and working with IaC and configuration management tools like Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD - Skilled at deploying monitoring, alerting and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), securing and hardening those systems, and troubleshooting issues with engineers - Knowledgeable about Linux and networking, and troubleshooting on Linux systems Attributes - High motor - Razor-sharp thinker with precise command of language - Concise, evidence-based communicator - Excellent organizational and logistical skills - Intense curiosity and open-mindedness - Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves - Growth mindset