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title: 'Associate Site Reliability Engineer at asymmetric.re'
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# Associate Site Reliability Engineer at asymmetric.re

- **Company:** asymmetric.re
- **Location:** Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asymmetric.re/9b82e5a8-8922-4661-a92d-6836ad2b966e

## Job description

Asymmetric Research: Asymmetric Research is a specialized security firm focused on long-term, integrated partnerships with L1/L2 blockchains and DeFi protocols. We help teams build resilient systems, strengthen security posture, and proactively address emerging threats.

Culture: AR is a fully remote organization and members of our team have been strongly committed to open-source values for decades, having worked at organizations with deep open-source roots and strong security programs including Google, Netflix, Mozilla, Stripe, and Jump Crypto. We pride ourselves on maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality, trust, and professionalism.

About the Role: We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join Asymmetric Research. In this role, you will design, operate, and scale mission-critical blockchain infrastructure supporting leading L1/L2 networks and DeFi protocols, working within a high-trust team to deliver secure, highly available, production-grade systems while driving automation, reliability, and operational excellence across our globally distributed environments.

Responsibilities:

- Manage and maintain a globally distributed blockchain infrastructure fleet
- Design, architect, deploy, and operate production-grade infrastructure services
- Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code across development, staging, and production environments
- Ensure high availability and performance of mission-critical systems
- Contribute to automation, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling
- Monitor system health and respond to incidents with strong troubleshooting fundamentals
- Uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and operational discipline

What we're looking for:

- 2+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Strong experience managing Linux systems and network infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with load balancers and high-availability technologies (e.g., HAProxy, ALB/ELB)
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack)
- Solid troubleshooting skills across hardware, networking, and software systems
- Development experience in Go, Python, or Rust
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
- Experience with open-source monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager)

Good to have, not required:

- Experience operating distributed systems using tools such as Nomad or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, or Move-based ecosystems

Benefits:

- 25+ days of paid time off
- Comprehensive stipends for home office, wellbeing, professional development, and more
- Pension/401(k) programs
- Life insurance
- Premium healthcare
- Competitive base salary
- Lucrative bonus programs

## About asymmetric.re

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Asymmetric Research is a specialized boutique security firm that provides deep, embedded security partnerships for L1/L2 blockchains and DeFi protocols, enabling teams to build resilient systems and proactively address threats.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first (team across North America, Europe, and Asia)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jonathan Claudius (CEO) – former Chief Security Officer at Jump Crypto, Director of Security Assurance at Mozilla; Felix Wilhelm (CTO) – former Security Researcher at Google Project Zero and Jump Crypto

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security (web3 / blockchain security)
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving L1/L2 blockchains, DeFi protocols, and high-value web3 ecosystems
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the most trusted security firm on the planet.” The firm helps clients “build safely in the open” with integrity and transparency.

## Products & Services
- **Incident Response**: Enables recovery of digital assets – over $300M recovered to date.
- **Embedded Security Engineering**: Deep, proactive engagement as core team members to systematically eliminate bug classes over time.
- **Blockchain Validation**: High-integrity validator operations and infrastructure services for web3 ecosystems.
- **Security Research**: Pushes boundaries through coordinated disclosure, responsible vulnerability research, and public good contributions.
- **Enterprise Security**: Structured security programs, infrastructure, and incident response for high-value systems.
- **Platform Engineering**: Builds internal tooling, custom platforms, and high-assurance infrastructure (validator ops, etc.).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Key Metric**: Team of 45+ security experts; cumulative loss avoidance through responsible disclosure exceeds $5B in digital assets.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No public investors listed; key clients/ecosystem partners include Solana, Berachain, Monad, Wormhole, and Firedancer.
- **Growth Signals**: 64% YoY headcount growth (25 employees according to LinkedIn, but website claims 45+; conflicting reports). Global team spanning 11+ countries. Recently launched an internship program and actively hiring for multiple roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep embedded partnerships**: Firms like Wormhole and Firedancer rely on Asymmetric as day-to-day security team members, not just auditors.
- **Founder expertise**: Both founders come from elite security backgrounds (Google Project Zero, Jump Crypto, Mozilla), giving the firm unrivaled credibility.
- **Integrity-first culture**: Adherence to coordinated disclosure, open-source ethos, and long-term trust; they have avoided over $5B in losses through responsible disclosure.
- **Full service coverage**: From incident response to validator operations to research – a one-stop shop for web3 security.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening L1/L2 and DeFi relationships**: Expanding partnerships across the Solana, Berachain, Monad ecosystems.
- **High-assurance infrastructure**: Building and running validator ops and custom security platforms.
- **Talent and culture**: Scaling the team with top-tier security engineers and researchers globally, while maintaining a remote-first, high-trust environment.
- **Open source & coordinated disclosure**: Continuing to lead in vulnerability research and public good security work.

## Why Work Here
- **Work environment**: 100% remote with global team – work from anywhere. Emphasis on autonomy, deep collaboration, and integrity.
- **Perks**: Competitive base salary + lucrative bonus program, premium healthcare, life insurance, 25 days paid vacation, office equipment stipend, pension/401K programs, global travel opportunities, and company off-sites.
- **Culture**: “Build Boldly.” Values openness, transparency, ego-free communication, and high-trust collaboration. Strong engineering culture with a focus on rigorous research and long-term thinking.
- **Growth opportunities**: Work alongside industry veterans from Google, Jump Crypto, Mozilla, Trail of Bits; chance to shape security for some of the most critical projects in web3.

## Sources
1. [asymmetric.re](https://www.asymmetric.re/)
2. [asymmetric.re/company](https://www.asymmetric.re/company)
3. [LinkedIn – Asymmetric Research](https://www.linkedin.com/company/asymmetric-research)
4. [Careers page – Asymmetric Research](https://www.asymmetric.re/careers)

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