Skills

Communication Penetration Testing CI/CD Kubernetes Monitoring Test Networking Databases AWS GCP blockchain CI/CD Pipelines

Job Specifications

Overview

Our client is a crypto trading platform building a gas-efficient, fully decentralized exchange (DEX) and is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to support the systems behind it.

In this role, you will help develop the first fully decentralized perpetuals exchange using a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) on an EVM-compatible blockchain.

You will be responsible for setting up and maintaining both bare-metal and cloud environments, service orchestration, network connectivity, databases, blockchain nodes and monitoring tools—ensuring the platform runs with high performance, reliability and security.

Responsibilities

Create code that instantiates production and test infrastructure components

Monitor the performance of infrastructure components, addressing failures or scalability needs

Maintain constant focus on infrastructure and operational security

Design, implement, and maintain both traditional CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.

Work cross functionally with other engineers, internal and external teams to ensure rigorous infrastructure planning, timely implementation and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience.

Experience configuring, deploying and monitoring secure production backend systems at scale on cloud infrastructure, comprised of the following components:

Bare-metal and cloud computing

Networking

Data Pipeline Tools

Relational, In-Memory, and Time-series Databases

Kubernetes

Notification Systems

Experience with cloud infrastructure best practices around automation, identity management, and security, having created and maintained infrastructure for production grade systems.

Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and load testing to ensure reliability under production workloads.

Experience running chaos monkey, penetration testing, and other security best practices.

Experience leading cross-functional efforts to launch products.

Excellent oral, written and visual communication skills.

Bonus Points

Past experience working in high-paced startup environments

Knowledge of EVM, DEXs, Perpetuals, and other novel DeFi primitives

Proficiency in AWS, GCP, etc

About the Company

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