Infrastructure Engineer

$10000 - $14000 Full Time
Infrastructure Engineer
  • Drift
  • Remote / Sydney / San Francisco / New York / Singapore
Job Description

- Off-chain services: Design, build and maintain efficient and reliable off-chain web services that are optimised for speed (e.g. liquidators and arbitrage bots, indexing transaction history, etc) - Back-End Infrastructure Processes: Operationalize existing off-chain web services by improving processes and implementing operational strategies around monitoring, alarming, etc - Infrastructure Management: Manage upkeep for the Solana RPC and validators, in addition to developing a deep understanding of the Solana RPC and validator design to influence the future development of the protocol

Job Requirements

- 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining scalable data systems - Ability to go from design concepts to implementation fast - Passion for blockchain technology and decentralized finance Nice to Have - Experience with any blockchain at the protocol level - Experience running blockchain infrastructure - Understanding of perpetual futures, options, margin trading and derivatives products - Familiarity with the Solana blockchain and building applications on Solana - BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or relevant discipline Drift's Development Stack - Frontend: Typescript + React - Smart Contracts: Rust (using Anchor framework) - Backend: MySQL - Infrastructure: AWS

Benefits

120-170k package - Remote first - work from anywhere - International team meets - Stipend for laptop