Member of Technical Staff, Protocols Platform Engineering

You will:

• Develop software and infrastructure that scales across all crypto-networks.
• Build automation to best support the growing list of supported protocols through upgrades.
• Improve observability of the health of different parts of our systems.
• Design and optimize integration with decentralized networks directly or through selected vendors.
• Influence architecture/product roadmap to accomplish higher site reliability for new and existing services - have a seat at the table.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.
• Help scale the team.
• Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.
• Ship code that will impact the global economy.

You may be a good fit for this role if:

• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You genuinely care about code quality, resilience, security and test infrastructure.
• You prioritize the simplest, most efficient & reliable solutions over “cool tech”.
• You have DevOps / SRE experience and have built and operated production systems.
• You have experience with one of the major cloud providers (ideally GCP and/or AWS).
• You're knowledgeable about networking protocols.
• You enjoy programming, infra-as-code, monitoring, and automation.
• You've leveraged container technology in production.
• You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have experience running RPC or validator/staking protocol nodes.
• In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of crypto asset innovations.
• You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• You understand and care about supply chain security.

Tech stack:

• Backend Tech: Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Cue, Terraform, GCP, REST and GraphQL.
• Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, and infra-as-code.