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About Zenith

 
Zenith extends the Canton Network by enabling participants to launch customizable Virtual Blockchains that integrate seamlessly with Canton’s privacy, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. These multi-VM execution environments (EVM, SVM, MoveVM, and others) allow institutions and innovators to build interoperable, compliant, and scalable financial systems on top of Canton.
 
Operating at the intersection of DeFi and TradFi, Zenith is constructing the foundation for Web2.5, a technological renaissance where institutional-grade ledgers and consumer blockchains converge to modernize global finance.
 
Our team combines decades of experience across blockchain infrastructure, capital markets, and venture innovation. We are proud to be one of the Canton Network’s key ecosystem actors, extending its ecosystem to directly deliver institutional trust, compliance, and scalability to the next generation of digital assets.

What you’ll do

 
This is a high-impact, hands-on SRE leadership role for a senior engineer who can own Zenith’s infrastructure systems today and build the operational foundation for a world-class SRE team tomorrow. You will lead all reliability, performance, and operational functions across Zenith’s internal systems, Virtual Blockchain (VB) environments, and validator infrastructure.
 

• Own production reliability: Ensure strong operational reliability and resilience practices while partnering with engineering teams responsible for software quality.
• Manage and evolve cloud environments: Build, automate, and maintain scalable cloud systems supporting multi-layered blockchain execution, off-chain runtimes, ZK-prover workflows.
• Build SRE processes: Define and implement incident response, observability, monitoring, alerting, on-call rotation, runbooks, and reliability KPIs.
• Lead operational excellence: Establish systems for versioning, release management, configuration, secrets, environment orchestration, and reproducibility.
• Enable client VB deployments: Work closely with engineering and product teams to support the deployment, scaling, and reliability of client-tailored Virtual Blockchains.
• Collaborate on protocol operations: Partner with core engineering to support validator operations, network participation, upgrades, and secure infrastructure.
• Drive automation: Identify manual inefficiencies and replace them with robust automation for provisioning, deployment, and system testing.
• Build & lead the future of SRE: As Zenith scales, grow and mentor a high-performing SRE team that supports institutional-grade demands.
• Act as the operational technical expert: Provide hands-on leadership across infrastructure decisions, cloud architecture, and reliability challenges.

To join our team, you should be excited to

• Take full ownership of Zenith’s reliability posture from day one — designing processes, systems, and tools that scale with global institutional usage.
• Work deeply with engineering, product, and external partners to ensure VB deployments and client environments run seamlessly.
• Shape the operational foundation for an infrastructure company operating at the intersection of TradFi, blockchain, EVM, and ZK systems.
• Build an SRE practice from the ground up, transitioning from hands-on contributor to a team leader as the organization grows.
• Thrive in an environment where autonomy, ownership, and precision matter.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Proven experience owning reliability, uptime, and operational excellence for distributed systems or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization, and infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience building monitoring, observability, performance, alerting, incident response systems, and on-call processes.
• Strong knowledge of: 
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
  • CI/CD systems
  • Secrets management
  • Logging & metrics stacks
• Ability to design and execute scalable, fault-tolerant architectures with a strong automation mindset.
• Comfortable coordinating with engineering teams and working cross-functionally with product and protocol teams.
• Based in Europe (preferred), with the ability to operate across global time zones.

Bonus points

• Experience operating infrastructure for blockchain networks, validators, L1/L2 systems, consensus clients, or distributed ledgers.
• Familiarity with EVM-based blockchain architectures, proving systems or RISC V-based zkVM workflows.
• Experience deploying and maintaining environments that handle high throughput, low latency, or cryptographic workloads.
• Background supporting enterprise clients, regulated environments, or high-availability financial systems.
• Previous experience building or leading an SRE team.

Zenith culture

 
At Zenith, we only do first-class business, and we do it in a first-class way.
 
We operate with ambition, precision, and mutual respect, always playing the long game because we’re in the relationship business. We believe in the future, and we bet the firm on it.
 
We’re a remote-first team (meeting in person four times a year) that values both excellence and humanity. We celebrate the good times, play to win, and never lose sight of the team behind every success.
 
Some of our guiding principles:
 

• Default to trust, empathy & respect. We assume good intent and independent capability.
• Authority to ideas, not people. Great ideas can come from anyone. We debate based on merit, not hierarchy.
• Manage yourself. Initiative and ownership drive us further than micromanagement ever could.
• Meetings are tools, not habits. We keep communication lean, async, and effective.
• Celebrate small wins. Momentum matters, and recognition keeps it alive.
• Feedback fuels growth. Give it, receive it, and improve together.
• Work-life fit. We fit work into life, not the other way around.
• Rest is part of performance. Sustainable excellence requires balance.

At Zenith, you’ll architect and lead the systems that power the institutional blockchain era turning cutting-edge engineering into the trusted infrastructure of global finance.
 
Location: Remote (Europe preferred)

How to apply

 
Please start by filling out this form: https://airtable.com/appZ648eJpHoP3N9G/pagwFQ28rMVZQBMN4/form