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MLabs is hiring a Senior Core Systems Engineer

About the Role

The role involves leading the development and operation of foundational systems infrastructure, improving system reliability, and supporting scalable architectures across production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend systems and infrastructure components
  • Own the reliability, performance, and uptime of core services
  • Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues in production environments
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize service architecture
  • Develop automation tools to improve deployment and operational efficiency
  • Maintain system security, monitoring, and incident response protocols
  • Lead root cause analysis for critical outages and performance bottlenecks
  • Ensure infrastructure complies with operational and security standards
  • Drive improvements in observability and telemetry systems
  • Mentor engineers in best practices for systems design and operations
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies into the infrastructure stack
  • Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning
  • Optimize resource utilization and cost-efficiency of cloud infrastructure
  • Contribute to capacity planning and scalability forecasting
  • Enforce configuration management and infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Participate in on-call rotations for critical system support
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments
  • Collaborate on cross-team initiatives requiring system-level expertise
  • Document system architecture and operational procedures
  • Promote a culture of operational excellence and proactive problem solving

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical discipline
  • Experience with real-time or low-latency systems
  • Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects
  • Knowledge of service mesh and API gateway technologies
  • Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
  • Background in performance benchmarking and profiling
  • Familiarity with hardware provisioning and data center operations
  • Experience with zero-downtime deployment strategies
  • Understanding of cryptographic protocols and key management
  • Prior work on global-scale distributed platforms

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote and in-office collaboration

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on infrastructure resilience and system innovation

Technology Stack

  • Primary languages include Go and Rust; infrastructure runs on Kubernetes with cloud-agnostic design principles
  • Monitoring stack built on Prometheus, Grafana, and custom telemetry tools

Culture & Values

  • Emphasis on transparency, technical rigor, and sustainable engineering practices
  • Commitment to inclusive collaboration and continuous learning

Available for qualified candidates

Required Skills
RustSQLNoSQLDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureSecurityNetworkingPerformance OptimizationLinuxCI/CDMonitoring
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MLabs builds and evolves distributed backend systems that power primary products and customer-facing solutions in the high-growth Web3 and DeFi sector.
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Posted 7 months ago