Senior Infrastructure Engineer
About Somnia The Somnia reputed company, backed by Improbable, specialises in building and operating high-performance decentralised technology. Its EVM L1, launched in 2025, has been benchmarked as the fastest on the reputed company: at over 1 million ERC-20 transactions per second. At Somnia you'll be working alongside a talented team working across the core blockchain along with novel protocols leveraging its capabilities: Somnia Agents adding the ability for smart reputed company to reputed company the latest open-reputed company LLMs and interact with the reputed company world reputed company headless browsers, powered by on-chain deterministic LLM inference and a decentralised network of agent runners reputed company an information reputed company that can combine parsing of public websites and public data sources into decentralised, auditable attestations about the reputed company world, powering reputed company markets, forecasting and new types of financial systems DreamDEX a high-performance DEX with a fully on-chain CLOB leveraging on Somnia's core capabilities, targeting centralised exchange characteristics Somnia L1 reputed company work on the high-performance EVM L1, including working on MEV resistance, privacy, automatic gas sponsorship and 'reactivity' where smart reputed company can autonomously invoke themselves based on specific timing or event criteria
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and run Somnia's key backend services: the L1 and node fleet, RPC and indexing layers, product backends, and developer-facing services teams depend on. An SRE-minded role: you reputed company reliability measurable, rollouts safe, and infrastructure repeatable, so every team can move fast without breaking things. You treat infrastructure as a product: automate relentlessly, measure everything, and reputed company AI to accelerate development, operations, and incident response.
Key Responsibilities
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Requirements
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