Validator Engineer

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Ritual

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Wellness • B2C

Ritual is a health and wellness company that offers a subscription-based service for daily essentials such as multivitamins, designed for general health, pregnancy, sleep, stress relief, gut health, and skin health. Their products are known for being vegan, non-GMO, and extensively tested by third parties. Ritual emphasizes the use of traceable ingredients and a transparent supply chain to provide customers with reliable and scientifically-backed health supplements. The company strives to make maintaining health a simple and habitual routine through flexible subscription options.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🧘 Wellness

👥 B2C

💰 $25M Series B on 2019-02

📋 Description

• 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.

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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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!