VP Protocol and Backend Engineer

You will design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure blockchain products, systems and infrastructure related to blockchain participation and custody offerings. You will collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response. You will identify and implement solutions for your domain where process automation or tooling can significantly improve your ability to operate our infrastructure. You will develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business, establishing and communicating views that inform leadership and organizational strategy. You will continuously research and stay up to date with emerging trends in the web3 blockchain space. You will identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business. You will debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve participation. You will implement monitoring, observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure. You will participate in domain specific on call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of services. You will work through others to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure blockchain products, systems and infrastructure related to blockchain participation and custody offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.
• Identify and implement solutions for your domain where process automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure.
• Develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business, establishing and communicating views that inform leadership and organizational strategy.
• Continuously research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in the web3 blockchain space.
• Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business.
• Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve participation.
• Implement monitoring and observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure.
• Participate in and make improvements to domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services.
• Work through others to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

Requirements

• Proven software engineering or application development experience in modern programming languages such as .Net Go Rust C/C++ Java
• Demonstrated experience with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake, web3, rpc)
• Strong concepts of custody key management, generation, HSMs and MPC technologies
• Experience or awareness in working with Chainlink systems, services or ecosystem
• Ability to script in a high level scripting language like Python Perl or bash coupled with an ability to identify human processes that can be scripted and automated
• Deep familiarity with compute-infrastructure systems, tooling, observability, debugging strategies along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice
• Troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple systems along with an ability to identify server, network, and application issues and apply measurable remediations
• Working knowledge of Linux systems, system performance optimization and command line tooling
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare, KVM, Docker or similar)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, LogDNA, etc.)
• Conceptual knowledge of security best practices, including encryption, access control, and network security (firewalls, traffic filtering)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Competitive paid time off
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching sessions through Headspace
• Free daily snacks in-office
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues