Software Engineer

Infrastructure & Platform Engineer Job Posting

Location: New York, San Francisco (Office)

Compensation: $185K - $400K

Our client is a rapidly growing technology company operating at the forefront of the high-stakes crypto derivatives sector, a market with annualized revenues in the tens of billions. Their platform is one of the fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges, capturing a significant and expanding share of the global market. They are building the next essential feature in this space: Multi-Asset Margin, which will allow users to post various forms of collateral directly on-chain, eliminating the need to liquidate assets into USDC before trading. Their infrastructure is designed to bring multiple trading venues and expanded financial utility directly to the user.

You will join their Infrastructure & Platform team to design, deploy, and operate the core components of their scalable, high-performance systems. You will focus on compute, storage, and networking while working closely with the product team to deliver exceptional speed and reliability in demanding, real-time environments.

What You'll Do:

• Develop robust scripts and services to ensure speed and reliability in demanding, real-time environments.
• Manage and deploy compute resources and containers for custom services and integrations.
• Automate essential functions like scaling, load balancing, and congestion control across both compute and database layers.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment, seamless rollback, and continuous delivery.
• Monitor system performance across CPU, memory, I/O, and network, tuning configurations for maximum throughput and resiliency.
• Develop indexing and explorer services to create live, fast, and expressive data channels for users.
• Provision and optimize diverse database systems, including those for time series, relational SQL, key-value, and in-memory workloads.

What You Bring:

• 3+ years of experience building production-grade infrastructure in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Strong scripting and development skills, particularly in Rust and other low-level programming languages.
• Deep expertise managing compute instances directly (e.g., VMs) and/or experience with container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including VPCs, subnets, load balancers, NAT, VPN, and network security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure as code practices (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proven track record with time-series databases (e.g., TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) and key-value stores (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis).
• Experience profiling and optimizing low-level system performance under high load conditions.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

• Compensation: $185,000 - $400,000 annual base salary.
• Equity: Significant company equity package.
• Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA options.
• Time Off: Generous paid vacation and holidays.
• Retirement: Retirement plan with employer matching contributions.

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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