You could work anywhere. Why Figment?
Figment powers the future of Web3 through industry-leading blockchain infrastructure. As the leading provider of staking solutions, we help 500+ institutional clients optimize their crypto rewards, including top exchanges, asset managers, wallets, foundations, custodians, and major token holders. Our clients trust Figment for a comprehensive suite of services, including reward optimization, cutting-edge API development, detailed rewards reporting, seamless partner integrations, governance support, and slashing protection.
Backed by a team of passionate and intelligent Figmates, with a 100% remote-first global presence across 12 countries, our company is on a mission to accelerate the adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Web3 ecosystem. We’re building the infrastructure that will power the decentralized future.
As a fast-growing tech company, we’re looking for builders and innovators — people who thrive in the face of uncertainty and are motivated to make an impact. We are also looking for true teammates - people who are genuine, humble, and driven to level up together. If you're excited to shape the future, contribute to an energetic company culture, and work at the cutting edge of blockchain technology, we want you to join our team and help us lead the charge!
About the opportunity
Figment's DevOps team secures billions in staked assets across 50+ blockchain protocols. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll own mission-critical validator infrastructure and pioneer agentic AI workflows that amplify team capability, sharpen operational decision-making, and drive measurable business outcomes. You'll have end-to-end ownership, high autonomy, and a direct impact on how our platform performs and scales.
How you will make an impact
- Deploy and maintain blockchain validator nodes and associated infrastructure, leveraging Ansible and Terraform to automate protocol operations and guarantee maximum uptime for the network fleet
- Build and extend agentic AI workflows that automate operational patterns, directly driving AI enablement and infrastructure efficiency
- Onboard new protocols and staking infrastructure for institutional customers
- Sharpen monitoring, alerting, and observability across hybrid infrastructure supporting high-value blockchain staking operations
- Partner closely with our security team to deploy highly secure CI/CD builds and drive release pipeline improvements
- Contribute to incident resolution and participate in on-call rotation supporting operations across 50+ blockchain production staking infrastructure
- Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders in Security, Product, Customer Success, and Finance, as well as external blockchain foundations, to drive strategic initiatives across our globally distributed team
What you bring to the team
- 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with demonstrated experience building AI-augmented operational workflows and agentic tooling
- Strong expertise in Linux systems administration - systemd, networking, kernel upgrades, bare-metal comfort
- Comfortable with deep shell scripting, Python/Go, and Infrastructure as Code
- Proven success managing hybrid environments (bare-metal and cloud) at scale, with Ansible provisioning across multiple production hosts and Terraform-driven workflows for VMs, monitoring, Vault, and DNS modules
- Deep knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, PagerDuty - preferred) with a focus on actionable alerting and operational clarity
- Demonstrated experience building production-grade AI workflows using agentic tooling (Claude Code or equivalent), and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment
- A proactive, dive-in problem-solving mindset: you see risks early, turn them into plans, and drive improvements while sharing knowledge with your teammates
Bonus if you have
- Hands-on blockchain validator operations experience with Solana, Ethereum, Cardano, Cosmos SDK, or similar, including Layer 1/2 infrastructure and familiarity with protocol-specific tooling (Solana CLI, Cardano tools, etc.)
- Kubernetes or container orchestration experience
- Cloud-native depth on AWS or GCP, including Nitro Enclaves or managed Kubernetes
- Security engineering or systems hardening background
- Networking depth in P2P topology
Why you might be excited about us
At Figment, we offer an exciting range of competitive benefits designed to support and empower every member of our team:
- 100% remote-first environment. Our flagship office is in Toronto, Canada. We also have additional co-working spaces in New York, London, and Singapore. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you’re near one), at home, or a bit of both, it’s up to you.
- 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days.
- Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one.
- Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements.
- A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in.
- Monthly Wifi reimbursement.
- A yearly Learning & Development budget.
- RRSP match (Canada).
- Stock Options in the company.
- Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!
Other reasons you may love working at Figment
- We are a team of under 200 members, which allows for an impactful contribution from day one.
- We place a strong focus on personal career development to shape a role that fits your goals and interests. Your satisfaction and well-being matter to us, and we’re here to support your ongoing growth.
- Our culture is one of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment.
- Our team members themselves recommend working at Figment - with an eNPS score of 54 (which is ranked as ‘great’!).
- We are also extremely proud of ranking as one of the top Web3 employers by Talent Titans.
Compensation
One of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for.
Base Salary: The CAD base salary range for this position is CAD $170,000–$190,000. The US base salary range for this position is USD $170,000–$190,000. This range reflects base salary only, and does not include additional compensation, sales incentives or benefits. For candidates in other countries, the pay range will be disclosed upon your first interview with Figment (being a globally remote company, the list of salary ranges would simply be too long to note here!). The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum range for a new hire across Canada and the US. A candidate’s specific pay within the range will be determined by various factors including job-related skills, relevant education, and training.
Interview process
At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process.
- During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company.
- As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit.
- We aim for the entire process to take around 2-4 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect.
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At Figment, we have a thorough hiring process to verify the identity of all job candidates. This includes checking documents, conducting in-person interviews and completing background checks. Candidates must pass all these steps to be considered for a job with Figment. Anyone who provides false information or tries to skip these steps will be disqualified from the hiring process immediately.
To learn more about Figment, our team, and the amazing work we are doing, visit our website. Are you ready to join us?