Senior Blockchain Backend Engineer – Scalable Web3 Infra

Aptos; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance premium

Equipment provided

Flexible vacation

Token grants

401k matching

In-person and digital events

Job summary

Aptos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the critical infrastructure powering the Aptos blockchain ecosystem. You will influence architecture, APIs, indexers, node infrastructure, SDKs, and developer tools that thousands of projects rely on.

Join a lean, autonomous team with significant impact, working in a fast-paced environment from our Palo Alto, CA or New York, NY offices. You should enjoy solving hard distributed systems problems and delivering robust platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping scalable backend systems.
• Proficiency in Rust, Go, C++, Java, or Python.
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure, indexing, or node operations is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize backend services and platform infrastructure for Aptos.
• Develop scalable APIs, indexing services, and data pipelines for blockchain data access.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for node operations, monitoring, and observability.
• Develop SDKs, libraries, and developer tools.
• Write clean, performant, well-tested, production-ready code.
• Collaborate closely with protocol engineers, infrastructure teams, and product engineers.

Skills

Backend systems

Rust

Go

C++

Java

Python

Distributed systems

API design

Problem solving

Autonomous work

Job description

Aptos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the critical infrastructure powering the Aptos blockchain ecosystem. You will influence architecture, APIs, indexers, node infrastructure, SDKs, and developer tools that thousands of projects rely on.

Join a lean, autonomous team with significant impact, working in a fast-paced environment from our Palo Alto, CA or New York, NY offices. You should enjoy solving hard distributed systems problems and delivering robust platforms.