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title: 'Validator Engineer at Ritual'
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# Validator Engineer at Ritual

- **Company:** Ritual
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ritual/jobs/4815356007

## Job description

## About Ritual

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.

## About the role

As a Validator Engineer, you will own the uptime, performance, and reliability of Ritual’s validators. You’ll be responsible for managing upgrades, snapshots, and sync performance, while also serving as the primary technical point of contact for validator operators — owning deployment tooling, documentation, and support to ensure seamless participation across testnet and mainnet.

- Build and automate bare-metal & cloud deployments for our validators using our existing full-fledged simulation framework
- Orchestrate client upgrades, parameter changes, and hard-forks with zero downtime across staging and mainnet
- Profile and patch critical paths for optimal performance of the execution and consensus clients
- Produce run-books, maintain clear documentation, and actively support validator operators via Discord to keep staking participation healthy

## About you

- 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 — automating everything from container builds to canary deployments
- 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

## Nice to have

- Direct experience supporting external validator operators — including writing documentation, maintaining snapshots, and answering integration questions during testnet or mainnet launches
- Upstream contributions to both execution and consensus clients
- Experience orchestrating GPU workloads or other compute-intensive pipelines
- Familiarity with deploying, maintaining, and tuning open-source AI models
- Experience interfacing with infrastructure partners, custodians, and auditors in high-uptime environment

## Why join us

- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- 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, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!

## About Ritual

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ritual is a social ordering app and online ordering platform that connects local restaurants with customers, offices, and building tenants, enabling convenient order‑ahead and pickup.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded – Seed, Series B, Series C, and later rounds; total funding $137.3M)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with additional offices in the United States)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Ray Reddy (CEO & Co‑founder) – additional co‑founders are not publicly named in the available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food technology / Consumer services (online ordering, restaurant technology, employee meal perks)
- **Target customers**: B2B (companies offering meal perks to employees, building management) and B2C (individuals ordering takeout). Secondary customers are restaurants (especially independents) wanting a low‑commission ordering channel.
- **Mission / purpose**: “We’re for restaurants and the people who love them” – helping local businesses thrive online by providing affordable technology and fostering community around food.

## Products & Services
- **Ritual App (Consumer)**: A mobile app that lets users order ahead from nearby restaurants, skip the line, and pay. Includes a unique “social ordering” feature where co‑workers can add orders to a single pickup.
- **Ritual for Restaurants**: An online ordering system that gives independent restaurants a digital presence with lower commissions than major delivery platforms.
- **Ritual for Offices & Buildings**: Meal program and tenant rewards that make it easy for companies to offer daily lunch credits, connecting office workers with local eateries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$30M** (latest available); total funding **$137.3M** across 5 rounds.
- **Notable Investors**: Insight Partners (led Series B), Mantella Venture Partners, Mistral Venture Partners (seed), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Small team of ~15 employees (down ~26% YoY, indicating a lean operation); acquired AllChecked.in in 2021; presence in North America and Australia; continues to serve both consumers and enterprise meal‑perk programs.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Restaurant‑first model**: Lower commission structure compared to incumbents like DoorDash, making it more attractive for independent restaurants.
- **Social ordering moat**: The ability for co‑workers to piggyback on one order creates a network effect within offices and buildings.
- **Hybrid‑work alignment**: Office meal credits and building partnerships directly address the “return‑to‑office” trend.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening relationships with office buildings and enterprise clients to drive recurring meal‑perk revenue.
- Continuing to offer affordable technology to independent restaurants to help them compete digitally.
- Maintaining a lean, low‑burn approach while refining its product for a post‑pandemic hybrid work environment.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Impact, Open‑mindedness, and Good Judgement. The team is small (15 people) so every hire has outsized impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model – weekly credits are provided when in the Toronto office, and daily credits are available on office days.
- **Perks**: Ritual Credits for meals; emphasis on work‑life balance (rating 3.6/5) and culture (3.9/5) on LinkedIn.
- **Engineering culture**: Data‑driven decision making, modern tech stack (Kubernetes, Python, Google Cloud, Snowflake, React, etc.). Previous employees have gone on to top tech companies (Shopify, Amazon, Google, Wealthsimple).
- **Career growth**: Employees rate career opportunities at 3.6/5; leadership is hands‑on due to team size.

## Sources
1. [ritual.co](https://ritual.co/)
2. [ritual.co/careers](https://ritual.co/careers)
3. [ritual.co/about](https://ritual.co/about)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ritual-co)

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