Member of Technical Staff
You will design and implement distributed backend systems that power on chain and off chain infrastructure. You will own end to end deployments including infrastructure as code, observability, audit log, and runbooks. You will research and prototype new systems and translate them into production ready infrastructure for regulated institutions. You will work with high autonomy in a fast moving environment and ensure reliability, security and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Build and own off chain systems
- Design and build off chain systems and infrastructure that power on chain products validator and staking architectures custody and key management integrations compliance automation and the APIs and services that connect institutional workflows to on chain settlement
- Own deployments end to end infrastructure as code observability audit logging runbooks and the SLAs that institutional clients depend on
- Take ownership of architecture and implementation not just execution against a spec
- Move ideas from research and prototype through to production without losing rigor
- Contribute to technical research and help define the direction of new systems
- Engage with emerging on chain primitives and assess how they translate into production grade infrastructure for regulated institutions
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems backend engineering and production cloud infrastructure
- Experience designing and operating systems with real reliability security and auditability requirements
- A track record of taking ideas from prototype to production with care and rigour
- Comfort working in a high autonomy fast moving environment
- Working knowledge of blockchain systems Ethereum Solana validator operations or on chain protocols or a clear track record of picking up new domains deeply and quickly
- High agency low ego You own your work end to end and hold yourself accountable for quality
- Experience with regulated financial infrastructure custody systems or institutional capital markets workflows
- Background running validator infrastructure or staking systems at scale
- Familiarity with secure key handling HSMs or distributed systems at scale
- Prior work integrating with KYC AML treasury or risk systems
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Hybrid Flexible Working Arrangements
- Flexible Time Off paid
- 3% 401 k company contribution
- Company paid health and protective benefits for employees partners and other dependents
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Smart entrepreneurial and fun colleagues
- Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts lunches
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace