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Category Labs
New York, United States; United States
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Category Labs
(formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to deliver significant improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.
We’re the team behind Monad, a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 whose public mainnet is now live. We write the core software that runs it: a parallel-execution EVM
, a custom state database, and a BFT consensus client
, all developed in the open.
We're looking for a Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to operate the infrastructure behind Monad, and to push how much of that operation can be driven by AI. You'll keep our globally-distributed validator, full node, and archive fleet healthy across mainnet and testnet, own our infrastructure-as-code and observability, and build the agentic tooling and guardrails that let a small team safely operate a large fleet.
As more of our engineering shifts toward AI, this role is central to designing the workflows, deterministic guardrails, and security perimeters within which autonomous agents operate our infrastructure; you'll also help stand up and operate the infrastructure behind our own growing model workloads.
Compensation
You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.
How We Use AI
We’re an AI-native team, and we expect engineers to use coding agents and keep up as the tooling evolves. A few things we believe:
AI is leverage, not a crutch. Review what it generates with the same scrutiny you’d give a teammate’s PR, and own every line you ship.
Judgment is what matters, not how long you typed by hand. We won’t ask for “N years of [tool].” The stack turns over every few months, so what matters is that you pick up new tools fast and know where and when they apply.
Compensation
The base salary range for this role is $180,000 – $250,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across US locations. It does not include benefits, token, or equity incentives. The final offer may vary based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, domain expertise, and work location. If you are based outside of the US, we have geographic considerations that may impact your final compensation.
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