Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer: Crypto Production

Jump Trading; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking a production engineering professional to build and maintain validator infrastructure for global crypto markets. You will tackle challenging technical problems in consensus, distributed systems, and cryptography while ensuring high availability and robust security.

You'll work with on-chain infrastructure including validators and RPC nodes, improve monitoring and alerting, and explore new technologies in a fast-paced, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Passion for blockchain technology and an insatiable desire to learn.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, flat team with multiple priorities.
• Experience managing PoS blockchain infrastructure, ideally Solana or Ethereum.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and maintain validator infrastructure and tooling for a top proprietary trading firm.
• Work with bleeding-edge software and challenging technical problems (consensus, distributed systems, cryptography).
• Oversee on-chain infrastructure including validators, light clients, and RPC nodes.
• Improve monitoring and alerting for crypto infrastructure to enable rapid resolution.
• Experiment with new technologies and stay updated on blockchain developments.
• Strengthen security properties: key management, server hardening, intrusion detection, security best practices.
• Contribute to external partnerships impacting Jump's bottom line.
• Engage in public forums for knowledge transfer and community awareness.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team to ensure high availability.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Blockchain

Proof-of-Stake

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Alertmanager

Linux

Networking

Python

Golang

Rust

Distributed Systems

Security

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Job description

Jump Trading Group is seeking a production engineering professional to build and maintain validator infrastructure for global crypto markets. You will tackle challenging technical problems in consensus, distributed systems, and cryptography while ensuring high availability and robust security.

You'll work with on-chain infrastructure including validators and RPC nodes, improve monitoring and alerting, and explore new technologies in a fast-paced, globally distributed team.