M0 Labs - DevOps - Engineer

M0 is a stablecoin platform for builders. With M0, developers can create their stablecoins in minutes by extending $M - M0’s superior digital-dollar building block, and customize attributes such as branding, compliance behaviors, and yield distribution mechanics. By extending $M into their own stablecoin, businesses can monetize their digital dollar use cases and maintain control over their money tech stack, while not being burdened by operational heavy-lifting.

M0 is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer who will play a key role in ensuring the security, reliability, and scalability of our systems through automation, monitoring, and encryption-first architectures. This position requires hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native security best practices, along with a strong understanding of performance optimization and cost-efficient infrastructure design.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

• Lead the development and evolution of our internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to support engineering teams and improve developer experience.

• Build/maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, safe, and automated deployments.

• Ensure high availability, performance, and cost efficiency of infrastructure through monitoring, tuning, and continuous optimization.

• Apply cloud-native security best practices.

• Manage containerized workloads using Docker/Kubernetes in prod environments.

• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to integrate DevOps best practices into the software development lifecycle.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.

• Experience with blockchain protocols and distributed systems.

• Strong expertise in deploying and maintaining systems with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI, or Jenkins.

• Lead and optimize our CI/CD pipelines to guarantee seamless, fully automated deployments across various blockchain networks.

• Proficient in monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.

• Awareness of cybersecurity best practices in cloud and blockchain contexts.

• Skilled in scripting (e.g., Bash) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef.

• Fluent in English.

Skills & Attributes

• Proactive problem solver: You have a forward-thinking mindset, actively identifies opportunities for improvement, and takes decisive action to resolve issues efficiently and effectively.

• Collaborative communicator: You foster relationships with finance experts, blockchain specialists, back-end developers and designers. 

• Team-oriented mindset: You are always ready to help colleagues within and outside your team and seek assistance when needed

• Delivery-focused: You have a clear understanding of the objectives and goals and direct your efforts towards achieving them.