Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

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October 7

🗽 New York – Remote

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Nexus

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Artificial Intelligence • API • Cybersecurity

Nexus is on a mission to enable the Verifiable Internet by building the world’s most powerful distributed supercomputer. Our team of leading mathematicians, engineers, and cryptographers is dedicated to developing next-generation secure and scalable technologies, such as the Nexus zkVM, to ensure the accuracy of AI and support advanced computational tasks. By partnering with Nexus, individuals and organizations can contribute to this innovative ecosystem and help shape the future of computation.

11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

🔒 Cybersecurity

📋 Description

• Architect and implement low-latency, high-throughput financial infrastructure for Nexus’s Layer 1 and DEX. • Own major roadmap milestones: public testnet → mainnet → institutional-grade performance. • Optimize consensus and transaction pipelines for speed, determinism, and security. • Collaborate with cryptography and protocol teams to integrate cutting-edge zero-knowledge proofs into production systems. • Mentor mid-level engineers and establish engineering best practices for reliability, security, and observability. • Ensure high availability and fault tolerance for mission-critical financial systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 6–10+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in infrastructure or systems roles. • Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems (e.g., HFT, distributed trading platforms, real-time financial exchanges). • Strong programming background in Rust (preferred), C++, Go, or similar systems languages. • Deep knowledge of network protocols, concurrency, and distributed systems. • Experience delivering secure, production-grade systems with measurable performance gains.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Meaningful ownership in the Nexus protocol • Health insurance for employees and their dependents • 401(k)