Staff Infrastructure Engineer
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Ellipsis Labs. New York · full-time · $200,000–$250,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the core infrastructure architecture and establish practices the team can follow
- Build and run the team's DevOps workflows
- Protect production systems and monitor them to support very high reliability
What you bring
- At least three years building and maintaining production software, with strong, documented code
- At least three years working with Unix systems and DevOps
- Experience with cloud infrastructure; AWS is preferred
Who this fits
This senior individual-contributor role suits an infrastructure generalist who takes initiative, works well with a team, and is willing to tackle unfamiliar technical and non-technical problems. You'll be the first full-time infrastructure engineer, with responsibility for foundational systems and processes. Interest in decentralized finance is required; blockchain, Solana, quant trading, or fintech experience is preferred. The role is based in New York.
From the employer
Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.
The Opportunity
Ellipsis Labs is seeking our first full-time Infrastructure engineer to join the team. (We've had a part-time advisor and helper on this so far!) The ideal candidate would consider themselves an infrastructure or systems generalist, excited to tackle sensitive and high-performance financial technology that needs 5+ 9's of reliability.
In this role, you will:
Set foundational infrastructure best practices and architecture
Develop and own the team's DevOps processes
Ensure the security and monitoring of critical production systems
Qualifications
Required
3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (ideally in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code
3+ years of experience with Unix systems and DevOps
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
Passion for decentralized finance
Preferred
Experience working with blockchain technology, preferably Solana
Experience in quant trading or fintech
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