Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
LayerZero Labs Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Manager-level Site Reliability role at LayerZero Labs. Vancouver · no salary stated · we estimate CA$91,750–CA$142,500 across Canada.
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What you'll do
- Lead SREs by setting technical priorities, supporting their development and establishing performance expectations
- Set reliability plans for blockchain nodes, including service objectives, capacity preparation and incident handling
- Coordinate with engineering, product and platform leaders to prioritize reliability work against business needs
- Improve infrastructure automation with Kubernetes and Helm, and strengthen on-call, incident triage and post-incident reviews
- Review technical designs and step into difficult incidents while guiding the team's engineering standards
What you bring
- At least six years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure work, including two years leading or managing a technical team
- Practical expertise with blockchain nodes, such as validator, full or archive nodes and RPC performance
- Strong TypeScript or Golang skills, plus at least three years operating Kubernetes in production and authoring Helm charts
- Advanced Unix/Linux and distributed-systems knowledge, with experience building or expanding incident-response practices
- A computer science degree or comparable technical education, or equivalent hands-on experience
Who this fits
This role suits a technical people leader who can guide engineers while staying involved in architecture and serious incidents. You'll manage an SRE team and own reliability across blockchain node infrastructure and platform services.
From the employer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
At LayerZero, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is at the intersection of software and systems engineering, dedicated to crafting and maintaining large-scale, resilient systems. Our goal is to ensure that all LayerZero services — ranging from critical internal systems to those external users interact with — are reliable, meet the uptime expectations of our users, and continuously evolve at a swift pace. Our SRE professionals will monitor our system's capacity and performance to uphold these standards.
As Manager of SRE, you'll lead a team of engineers responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of our blockchain node infrastructure and platform services — while staying technically sharp enough to guide architecture decisions and jump into critical incidents. You'll balance people leadership with hands-on technical judgment, shaping how the team works, grows, and scales alongside LayerZero.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead and develop a team of SREs — setting technical direction, growth plans, and performance expectations.
- Own the reliability strategy for blockchain node infrastructure across a variety of DLTs, including SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response.
- Partner with Engineering leadership and Product/Platform teams to align reliability investments with business priorities.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices, with a focus on Kubernetes and Helm at scale.
- Establish and continuously improve on-call structure, incident detection/triage automation, and postmortem culture.
- Stay hands-on: review designs, dig into complex incidents, and set the technical bar for the team.
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years directly managing or leading a technical team.
- Deep familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure (validator/full/archive nodes, RPC optimization, etc.).
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Golang, with the judgment to know when to write code vs. delegate.
- Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux internals and distributed systems / high-availability design.
- 3+ years running Kubernetes in production, including Helm chart authoring at scale.
- Track record building or scaling an on-call/incident response process.
- Excellent communication skills — able to represent the team to leadership and hire/retain strong engineers.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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