This position is in Zama’s Developer Platform team

Zama recently unveiled the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol, which enables confidential smart contracts on top of any blockchain L1 or L2 using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). The Zama Developer Platform (ZDP) is our managed gateway that lets internal teams and external developers use the open-source Zama Protocol through simple, authenticated HTTPS endpoints. Think Infura or Alchemy, but confidential by default.

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate the cloud and platform foundations of ZDP. You will help shape the front door to Zama’s privacy-preserving technology. Your work will remove complexity for developers, accelerate internal iteration, and underpin how confidential applications get built and scaled.

What you will do

• Own and operate the Zama Developer Platform API management layer and developer portal, including API key lifecycle, rate limits, quotas, and tenant policies.

• Write and maintain small services, CLIs and gateway plugins for the platform, primarily in Go or Rust, with tests and code reviews.

• Build reliable CI/CD, environment isolation, and release automation that supports frequent, safe changes for ZDP Relayer, client SDKs, and other components.

• Establish end-to-end observability with structured logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, and actionable alerting, then iterate based on what you learn.

• Deliver security-by-default: least-privilege access, secrets management, strong authentication on admin surfaces, audit trails, and appropriate edge protections.

• Create and maintain runbooks, contribute to on-call and incident response, and drive post-incident improvements.

• Reduce toil by automating runbooks and incident tooling, including load and failure testing.

• Profile performance and cost across the stack and make pragmatic optimisations.

• Shape our approach to multi-region and horizontal scaling, including data residency considerations such as GDPR and disaster recovery.

• Collaborate widely, contribute to technical direction, and help improve engineering practices over time.

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

• Strong knowledge of DevOps for blockchain infrastructure, especially for Ethereum-based blockchains, primarily on AWS.

• Experience with API management platforms such as Tyk, Kong Konnect, or WSO2, including custom policies or plugins.

• Familiarity with identity platforms (IdPs) such as Auth0, Okta, Keycloak, LogTo etc and configuring identity/authorization engines for OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and service-to-service auth.

• Ability to build production-grade tooling or small services in Go or Rust, plus a scripting language such as Python or TypeScript.

• Strong infrastructure as code skills, for example Terraform/OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or Pulumi.

• Nice to have

  • Knowledge of applying Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF), API management, and Page Rules engine for traffic management.

  • Competence with CI/CD (for example GitHub Actions) and release engineering.

  • Practical knowledge of observability stacks and SLO-driven operations.

  • Prior experience with creating/managing runbooks for on-call operations.

  • Hands-on experience of load testing, chaos testing, or failure-injection testing.

  • Familiarity with cost and performance tuning through code changes, not only instance sizing.

  • Only candidates based in +/-4 hours of UTC are suitable for this role.

📋 Step 1: The Application Form
Start your journey by filling out our application form. This is your chance to introduce yourself and showcase your unique skills and experiences.

🏆 Step 2: The Challenge
Next up, tackle our challenge! This is where you can shine and show us how you approach and solve real-world problems.

💼 Step 3: The Technical Interview
Dive deep into your technical knowledge with our team. This is your opportunity to demonstrate your expertise and passion for the field.

🤝 Step 4: Cultural Fit & Compensation Chat
Meet with our COO to discuss our company culture and explore how you can thrive with us. We’ll also discuss compensation to ensure we’re on the same page.

🛠️ Step 5: The Hacking Trial
Put your skills to the test in a real-world hacking scenario. This trial helps us see your practical skills in action and how you handle challenges.

🔍 Step 6: The Reference Check & Offer
As a final step, we’ll conduct a reference check to confirm your qualifications and past experiences. If all goes well, you will get an offer soon.

We provide more details on our process here. Exceptional candidates will hear from us as we advance through the recruitment process.

Zama values and promotes diversity. We give everyone a fair chance to be evaluated on their professional, academic, and personal skills. Our aim is to make the hiring process as pleasant, stress-free, and friendly as possible, even if the process is longer and more involved than you might find elsewhere.