Senior Protocol Engineer

March 27

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Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy through innovative crypto solutions. Galaxy provides a wide array of services, including asset management, trading, lending, custodial technology, and blockchain infrastructure solutions. With a focus on both traditional finance integration and digital asset expertise, Galaxy is committed to advancing the adoption and functionality of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies across the globe.

Crypto • Digital Assets • Blockchain Technology

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• The Blockchain Engineering Team is responsible for deploying, securing, and optimizing validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks. • As part of this team, you will design, deploy, and manage validator nodes, enhance automation workflows, monitor network performance, and implement robust security measures. • The team collaborates closely with blockchain protocols, foundations, staking providers, and infrastructure partners to ensure seamless validator operations. • Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response. • Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure. • Develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business. • Establish and communicate views that inform leadership and organizational strategy. • Continuously research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space. • Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business. • Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve our participation. • Implement monitoring, observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure. • Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services. • Work through others, to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

🎯 Requirements

• You are an experienced Protocol, DevOps or SRE Engineer with; • Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.) • Ability to script in a high-level scripting language like Python, Perl or bash coupled with an ability to identify human processes that can be scripted and automated. • Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake consensus, web3, rpc, etc) • Deep familiarity with compute-infrastructure systems, tooling, observability, debugging strategies along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice. • Troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple systems along with an ability to identify server, network, and application issues and apply measurable remediations. • Working knowledge of Linux systems, system performance optimization and command line tooling. • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare, KVM, Docker or similar). • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, LogDNA, etc.) • Conceptual knowledge of security best practices, including encryption, access control, and network security (firewalls, traffic filtering). • Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus • Competitive paid time off • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents • Free virtual coaching sessions through Headspace • Free daily snacks in-office • Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry • Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues