Validator Engineer
Job Description
Ritual is hiring a Validator Engineer to own the uptime, performance, and reliability of the network's validators, acting as the primary technical contact for validator operators across testnet and mainnet.
Responsibilities
- Build and automate bare-metal and cloud validator deployments
- Orchestrate client upgrades, parameter changes, and hard forks with zero downtime
- Profile and patch execution/consensus client performance
- Produce run-books and support validator operators via Discord
- Maintain observability (logs, metrics, traces) for all validator operations
What we are looking for
- 4+ years operating high-availability distributed systems / PoS validators
- Go and Rust (EL/CL client code)
- Fork-choice, slashing, state sync protocol concepts
- Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, CI/CD
- Advanced Linux and networking/security hardening
Additional Information
This Validator Engineer role covers both testnet and mainnet validator operations for Ritual's network, requiring experience with proof-of-stake client internals (execution and consensus layer) alongside standard SRE/infrastructure skills.
Perks and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity/token grant
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Remote-friendly / flexible work
- Learning & development budget
Keywords: Go, Rust, Validators, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems
Ritual
📍 San Francisco, USAVisit Company WebsiteRitual is building a sovereign, AI-native execution layer blockchain that lets smart contracts call AI models directly on-chain via its Infernet SDK. The network aims to make verifiable, decentralized AI inference as accessible to developers as calling any other smart contract.
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