VP, Protocol – Backend Engineer

🕒 June 29

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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Galaxy

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

Crypto • Finance

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.

📋 Description

• Engineer resilient distributed services related to our blockchain participation offerings that handle high-throughput transaction flow, backpressure, retries, failures, and real-time coordination. • Dive into Rust + systems programming: engaging in low-latency, memory-safe backend work and build comfort in reading/modifying Solana validator-adjacent code. • Integrate with validator or node pipelines and reason about consensus, block production, transaction propagation, execution limits, and fee markets. • Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our systems. • 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. • Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services.

🎯 Requirements

• Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.) • Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake consensus, web3, RPC, etc) particularly Solana or ETH. • Deep Observability Know-how: metrics, tracing, block/slot analytics, alerting, incident debugging, and performance dashboards along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice. • Performance engineering experience: profiling, lock contention, cache behavior, async networking, kernel/network tuning, benchmarking, and p99 latency reduction. • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare, KVM, Docker or similar). • A security mindset: awareness of adversarial transaction flows, spam/DoS resistance, economic exploits, key management, and safe handling of privileged validator infrastructure. • Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

🏖️ 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