Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Superstate

Blockchain Works; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in blockchain technology is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and build high-performance financial systems. The role involves leading a team in creating robust cloud infrastructure and mentoring other engineers. Join a cutting-edge environment focused on evolving DeFi solutions with a strong emphasis on innovation and collaboration.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Familiarity with DeFi technology and web services.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure as code efforts and build monitoring systems.
• Build back-end web services for blockchain interactions.
• Collaborate and mentor team members on projects.

Skills

Expertise in building fault tolerant cloud infrastructure

Strategic thinking and problem-solving

Familiarity with SQL and query optimization

Understanding of the DeFi ecosystem

Education

BA or BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Rust

Typescript

Docker

Job description

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Superstate you will help lead our team in building open, transparent, frictionless financial blockchain primitives. You will be given the opportunity to design, build, test, and launch products that make DeFi more capital-efficient, accessible, and useful. We work in Rust, Typescript, and Solidity and are forever learning and optimizing everything we make in the name of correct coding.

At Superstate, you will be part of a cutting edge team building high-caliber technology that has a massive impact on the future of traditional and decentralized finance.

What You'll Do:

Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts

Build and own our alerting and monitoring infrastructure

Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains

Ensure the correctness of financial algorithms

Keep a pulse on the TradFi/DeFi ecosystem and identify improvements or areas of growth

Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact

Teach and mentor other engineers

What You Bring to the Engineering Team:

Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS

Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites

Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization

Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset

5+ years of professional engineering experience

BA or BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem

Experience with these Technologies is a "Nice to Have:"

Pulumi or Terraform

AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave

Rust

Postgres

Docker

Typescript

Layer 2 blockchains (e.g. Arbitrum, Optimism) and cross-chain bridges

Solidity or Yul

Foundry

Benefits + Perks:

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.