DevOps Engineer (Blockchain Infrastructure) in Obscura Compute

Position: DevOps Engineer (Blockchain Infrastructure) 
Location: Remote 
Type: Full-time 
Working Hours: GMT+1 (flexible, with weekend availability for deployments)

About Us

We are a small decentralised AI infrastructure company. We source high-end GPUs, deploy them globally, and optimise them for mining protocols like Gonka, Gensyn, and Bittensor. https://obscuracompute.com/

What You’ll Do

• Following a protocol’s quickstart guide to deploy a new node type (example: Gonka Quickstart for Hosts)
• Deploy and maintain blockchain nodes and ML inference servers on high-end rented GPU hardware (H100, H200)
• Constantly optimise nodes for better performance and higher rewards
• Configure Docker containers, manage networking, and ensure security best practices
• Monitor node health, uptime, and earnings
• Automate deployments so we can scale from 10 to 100+ nodes
• Troubleshoot issues—whether it’s a Tendermint consensus failure or a CUDA version mismatch
• Handle cryptographic keys securely (wallets, validators, access keys
• Building a Telegram bot that alerts you when a node goes down or rewards are paid
• Creating a simple automation script that swaps tokens for stablecoins at a specific time each week
• Debugging why a new protocol version isn’t connecting to the network

The Reality of This Role

This is not a standard 9-to-5 DevOps job.

You’ll be working with emerging protocols where:

• Documentation changes constantly (Gonka is a perfect example)
• You’ll often need to figure things out before they’re clearly explained
• New protocols appear regularly and we need to explore them quickly
• Things break in unexpected ways and you need to adapt on the fly

The work itself is not intense during normal hours — it’s mostly monitoring, small tweaks, and continuous optimisation. But when something breaks or a new deployment is needed, you need to act fast.

Weekend availability is required because node deployments and protocol upgrades often happen outside business hours. You won’t be working 24/7, but you need to be online when deployments happen.

If you enjoy stable, predictable work with perfect documentation — this role is not for you.

If you like being early, figuring things out, and building infrastructure for technology that doesn’t fully exist yet —perfect.

What We’re Looking For

Must have:

• 3+ years in DevOps, SysAdmin, or infrastructure roles
• Strong Linux skills (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Docker & Docker Compose expert (you can write and debug compose files in your sleep)
• Basic networking: ports, firewalls, reverse proxies
• Scripting (Bash is essential; Python is a plus)
• Comfortable with ambiguity — you can figure things out when docs are incomplete

Desirable:

• Blockchain / crypto experience (running nodes, validators, or miners)
• Worked with GPU servers (NVIDIA drivers, CUDA)
• Used Ansible or similar for automation
• Familiar with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knows what Tendermint/Cosmos SDK is
• Has run nodes for Gonka, Gensyn, Bittensor, or similar

Personal traits:

• Curious and resourceful — you enjoy the hunt for solutions
• Security-conscious (you don’t open ports you don’t need)
• Can work independently
• English enough to read technical docs and write basic messages (speaking not required)

Availability:

• Core working hours: GMT+1 (flexible)
• Must be available on weekends for node deployments when needed
• Node uptime is money — when something breaks, we fix it fast

Compensation

• Base salary: Competitive (paid in USD or UAH weekly)
• Performance bonus: Significant percentage of protocol profits — the better your optimisation, the more you earn
• High performers share directly in the upside