Validator Engineer
Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with its private testnet live. The company seeks a Validator Engineer to own the uptime, performance, and reliability of Ritual’s validators, manage upgrades, and serve as the technical point of contact for validator operators, ensuring seamless participation across testnet and mainnet.
Requirements
- 4+ years operating high-availability distributed systems, including direct experience running PoS validators on EVM-based chains
- Proficient in Go and Rust, with the ability to read, debug, and extend both Execution Layer (EL) and Consensus Layer (CL) client code
- Strong grasp of protocol-level concepts such as fork-choice, evidence handling, slashing conditions, and state sync
- Expertise in Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD workflows
- Advanced Linux user with deep networking knowledge and a strong focus on system hardening and security
- Passionate about observability — logs, metrics, and traces are at the core of every operational decision
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Optimized tax structure
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid options
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
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