Jump Crypto - Crypto Production Engineer

Remote - Sydney, Australia$150k - $200k3mo ago

Remote APAC Cryptocurrency Materials Cryptography Engineer Rust Python Solana Ethereum Linux

Requirements

• A passion for blockchain technology and an insatiable desire to learn. • Willingness to move quickly, work in a flat, fast-paced team and juggle competing priorities. • Previous experience with managing proof-of-stake blockchain infrastructure, preferably on Solana or Ethereum. • A deep understanding of software engineering principles, Linux, Kubernetes, monitoring/alerting (Prometheus/Alertmanager), networking, and experience across both cloud-based and bare-metal infrastructure. • Prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, and Salt). • Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex systems. • Familiarity with on-chain trading, DeFi, and risk management is preferred, but not required. • High proficiency with bash scripting, and experience in at least one other programming language. Popular languages at Jump are Python, Golang and Rust. • Reliable and predictable availability.

Responsibilities

• Help build, manage, and maintain a sophisticated validator infrastructure and tooling for one of the world’s top proprietary trading firms. • Working with software that is bleeding-edge and doing interesting things (consensus algorithms, distributed systems, cryptography) which often presents challenging technical problems. • Take responsibility for a wide range of on-chain infrastructure, including validators, light clients, and RPC nodes. • Improve monitoring and alerting systems for crypto infrastructure which enable quick and effective problem resolution. • Experiment with the newest technologies and keep abreast of new developments in the blockchain ecosystem. • Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management, server hardening, intrusion detection, and security best practices are important themes. • Contribute to external partnerships that directly impact Jump’s bottom line. • Engagement in public forums for community awareness and knowledge transfer. • Work with a globally distributed team to maintain high availability. • Other duties as assigned or needed.