Software Engineer Software Engineer Software Engineer

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

Multi Asset Margin for Hyperliquid. Giving users the ability to post variable forms of collateral, instead of selling collateral for USDC and depositing to Hyperliquid. Multi asset margin comprises of over 86% of accounts in Crypto.

Hyperliquid is the fastest growing crypto derivatives exchange which is a 20-30B a year revenue sector. Currently around 6% of global market share. Hyperliquid has annualised revenues of over $1B in USDC, at 99% net margin.

Blockchain under the hood, users will post collateral on our systems and we'll extend USDC collateral on venues of their choice. We will bring the venues to the user, as opposed to the user having to go to other venues. Users will be able to post various forms of collateral and eventually be able to trade on Hyperliquid without needing to sell down collateral.

Join our Infrastructure & Platform team to shape scalable high performance systems and services. You will design and operate core components such as compute, storage and networking while working closely with the product team to deliver exceptional user experiences.

What you'll do

• Develop scripts and services that deliver speed and reliability in demanding, 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 maximum 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.

What you bring

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

Compensation & Package

• $185-400k annual salary.
• Company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA options.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Retirement plan with employer match.

Interview Process

• Final Interview
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interview
• Final Interview

Hiring Criteria

• 3+ years building production-grade infrastructure in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Strong coding skills in Rust and other low-level languages.
• Deep expertise managing compute instances directly (e.g. EC2 VMs) and/or container orchestrations (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, load balancers, NAT, VPN, and network security.
• Proven track record with time-series databases (e.g. TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) and key value stores (e.g. DynamoDB, Redis).

Location

New York, US San Francisco, US (Office) - Must be able to work office based in NYC or SF

$185K - $400K

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Multi asset margin and fixing the fragmentation problem in crypto by creating the only front end you'll ever need.