Infrastructure & Platform Engineer - High-Performance Crypto

HireChain Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

Retirement match

Job summary

Hyperliquid is expanding its Infrastructure & Platform team to build scalable high-performance systems. You will design and operate core components for compute, storage and networking, working with product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Join a fast-growing crypto derivatives exchange redefining collateral posting and live data access. The role emphasizes real-time performance, container orchestration and time-series databases, with US office-based work in NYC or SF.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building prod infrastructure in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Strong scripting skills in Rust and other low-level languages.
• Deep expertise managing compute instances directly (EC2 VMs) and/or container orchestrations (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, load balancers, NAT, VPN, and network security.
• Proven track record with time-series databases (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) and key-value stores (DynamoDB, Redis).
• Experience profiling and optimizing low-level system performance under high load.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Develop scripts and services that deliver speed and reliability in real-time environments.
• Deploy and manage compute resources and containers for custom services and integrations.
• Automate scaling, load balancing and congestion control across compute and database layers.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment, rollback and continuous delivery.
• Monitor system performance across CPU, memory, I/O and network, tune configurations for throughput and resiliency.
• Build indexing and explorer services to enable live, fast and expressive data channels.
• Provision and optimize database systems for time series, relational SQL, key-value and in memory workloads.

Skills

Rust

Compute & VMs

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform/ IaC

TimescaleDB/InfluxDB

DynamoDB/Redis

Performance profiling

Networking basics

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

TimescaleDB

InfluxDB

DynamoDB

Redis

Job description

Hyperliquid is expanding its Infrastructure & Platform team to build scalable high-performance systems. You will design and operate core components for compute, storage and networking, working with product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Join a fast-growing crypto derivatives exchange redefining collateral posting and live data access. The role emphasizes real-time performance, container orchestration and time-series databases, with US office-based work in NYC or SF.