At Hiro, we build developer tools that bring Web3 to Bitcoin. Our suite of tools unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin through smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. With Hiro tools, developers can test and deploy smart contracts, spin up nodes and other server-side resources for scaling, and more. Building on Bitcoin is hard. Hiro's developer tools make it easier.
We’re very proud to say that Hiro has consistently been recognized on Built In’s Best Places to Work list, including 2025’s Best Remote Startups to Work For, Best Startups to Work For in New York City, 50 Best U.S. Startup Companies to Work For, and 100 Best Remote Places to Work.
Hiro is funded and backed by more than $75 million from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, and others.
About The Opportunity
Hiro is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help scale, secure, and optimize the infrastructure powering the Stacks ecosystem. You’ll be responsible for Kubernetes-based systems that underpin the Stacks Public Testnet, API Gateway, Chainhook-2.0, and Platform services, ensuring that our developer community and partners can build on reliable and observable infrastructure. DevOps engineers at Hiro are hybrid systems and software engineers with a two-pronged mission:
- Empower teams to build, test, deploy, and monitor services used by hundreds of thousands of users (soon to be millions) at scale with high velocity and quality.
- Eliminate toil across our engineering, IT, and other operations.
What You'll Do
- Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters across production, staging, and testnet environments.
- Build and manage API Gateway infrastructure (Kong , Istio) for high-scale external APIs.
- Deploy and monitor Chainhook-2.0 within Platform, ensuring resilient predicate registration and event streaming.
- Own Stacks Public Testnet reliability, including alerting, metrics, and incident response.
- Implement IaC (Terraform ) for all infrastructure resources.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines for internal services deployed into private Kubernetes clusters.
- Enhance observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) with SLO-based alerts and distributed tracing.
- Partner with blockchain and platform teams to ensure smooth rollouts and incident preparedness.
- Improve the tooling and automation for building, testing, and deploying software and services
- Collaborate with engineering teams on building / launching new products and features
- Evangelize and implement industry best practices to improve the security and ease-of-use of our production environment
- Diagnose problems from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Improve operational standards, tooling, and processes
- Engineer solutions to automate, and streamline monitoring and incident escalation, improve resiliency and uptime
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in DevOps/SRE roles operating high-availability distributed systems.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise (StatefulSets, Operators, Service Meshes, scaling strategies).
- Strong background in API infrastructure: load balancing, API Gateways (Kong, Nginx ), rate limiting, caching.
- Proficiency with container technologies like Docker or Containerd
- Skilled in IaC (Terraform, Pulumi ) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger/OTEL.
- Strong networking knowledge (L4/L7 load balancers, TLS termination, DNS, ingress controllers).
- Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, or NodeJS).
- Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), ideally multi-cloud.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working with a diverse team across time zones
- Great ownership, humility, and bias to action
- Able to see a problem from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions
- Experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production services
Bonus Points
- Experience running blockchain nodes in production.
- Familiarity with high volume APIs , event-driven systems.
- Security hardening of Kubernetes (RBAC, PSP/OPA, auditing, secrets management).
- Performance tuning of Postgres/Redis for high-scale API workloads.
- Experience with various network protocols, such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP (transport and network layers).
What We’ll Offer:
- Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $177,000 - $207,000.
- Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network
- $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
- $1,200/yr stipend for learning and development
- $1,000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing
- Daily Lunch Reimbursement (even if you’re remote!)
- Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
- Family-Friendly Health Benefits
- Free Life and Disability Insurance
- Health and dependent care (FSA)
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401k with 3% match
Hiro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and deeply cares about building a diverse team. Hiro is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.
