# Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (Americas, US time zones) at Startale Group

> Remote · APAC · Senior · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Astartale%3A4016929008 (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Startale Group](https://alderhq.app/companies/startale-group)
- Location text: Remote; Remote
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · APAC (evidence: "Remote role open to APAC / Asia")
- Posted: 2024-04-07 (945 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://startale.com/career/4016929008?gh_jid=4016929008
- Skills listed (inferred): PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

### Remote (Americas, US time zones) · Full time

### About Startale

Startale builds onchain finance as a vertically integrated stack: the chains, a JPY stablecoin, payments, and a consumer app. With SBI Group we are building Strium, a fully onchain exchange; we issued JPYSC, Japan's first trust-licensed JPY stablecoin; with Sony Group we operate Soneium; and Startale App, used by 210k monthly users, is the front door to all of it. We raised a ~$63M Series A from Sony, SBI and others. The team is ~70 people across 20 nationalities, and English is the working language of engineering.

### Why US time zones

Our engineering team is spread across Asia and Europe. This role anchors infrastructure coverage in US hours: you will be the infrastructure owner awake when most of the team is not. You must be physically based in a US time zone (UTC-8 to UTC-5), whether in the US, Canada, or Latin America. Working US hours from another region does not qualify.

### About the Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational systems behind StartaleApp, Strium, and other products across the Startale ecosystem. This is a senior, hands-on role: you design, build, and operate production infrastructure end to end, from cloud and Kubernetes to CI/CD, databases, observability, and security.

You will work primarily on two demanding products. StartaleApp is a user-facing Web3 wallet and application platform whose backend combines traditional cloud services and databases with blockchain nodes, indexers, and transaction processing. Strium, built with SBI Group, is a next-generation decentralized exchange bringing Japanese equities onchain, with a fully onchain order book and a consensus layer purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput trading.

Both run under high load, strict availability and security requirements, and real production conditions. We want someone who builds infrastructure rather than maintains it: comfortable making architectural decisions, automating everything that repeats, and diagnosing complex production issues. Experience running blockchain infrastructure is a significant advantage, and a SecOps or cloud security background is a major plus.

### What You Will Do

- Own infrastructure architecture and operations for StartaleApp, Strium, and other production systems.
- Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS: Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, scaling, upgrades.
- Manage everything as code: Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines with safe rollouts and rollback.
- Operate PostgreSQL in production: availability, replication, backups, performance, recovery.
- Build observability across infrastructure, applications, databases, and blockchain nodes, with alerting that catches incidents early.
- Run blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC services, indexers) and monitor it down to protocol level: sync, connectivity, transaction processing.
- Design disaster recovery and failover for critical systems, and harden security: access control, secrets, vulnerability management, monitoring.
- Diagnose production incidents across the full stack, and remove operational bottlenecks with automation instead of manual procedure.
### What You Bring

- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- A track record of building and operating production infrastructure for highly available systems, where availability directly affected users or the business.
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, and Linux experience.
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform, GitOps practices, and CI/CD pipeline design.
- Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS, service discovery.
- PostgreSQL in production: replication, backups, recovery, performance.
- High-availability design, incident response, root-cause analysis, and capacity planning.
- Hands-on experience operating blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC, indexers, validators, or data pipelines) and an understanding of how distributed blockchain networks fail.
### Strong Plus

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