Senior Software Engineer – Go, Rust, Blockchain Infrastructure

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🕒 September 21

🌐 United States, Portugal – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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QuickNode ⚡

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

☁️ SaaS

Crypto • Web 3 • SaaS

QuickNode is a company that provides advanced blockchain infrastructure to enable secure, decentralized innovation. It offers tools and resources such as API services, real-time data streams, managed blockchain solutions, and enhanced security measures, all backed by reliable global infrastructure. QuickNode's services support the development of decentralized applications by providing multi-chain capabilities, low-latency API processing, and comprehensive customer support. This allows businesses and developers to build and scale their projects across various blockchain networks with ease.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend services, APIs, and data-processing systems in Go and Rust • Own production Go services and Rust components, including architecture, interfaces, concurrency models, memory and resource efficiency, testing, observability, deployment, and operation • Architect distributed systems that ingest, process, validate, and serve blockchain data with strong consistency, fault tolerance, scalability, and availability • Own technical work end to end, including requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement • Profile and benchmark production systems and improve throughput, latency, resource efficiency, resilience, and correctness under load • Assess security risks in blockchain and distributed-system components and design or review protective controls • Debug complex failures across services, databases, streaming systems, networks, and blockchain nodes, then drive root-cause fixes • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Experience teams to translate customer and protocol requirements into maintainable systems • Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, document decisions, and establish engineering standards across teams • Report to Engineering leadership for the Blockchain Infrastructure team; no direct reports at this level

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in high-scale production environments • Advanced professional proficiency in both Go and Rust, with demonstrated experience shipping and operating production software in each language • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, concurrency, memory safety and ownership, databases, networking, operating systems, and production software architecture • Record of delivering reliable, scalable systems with measurable improvements in performance, availability, correctness, or developer experience • Experience with blockchain infrastructure, high-throughput APIs, node or RPC infrastructure, data-streaming pipelines, or similarly demanding distributed platforms • Experience applying secure-design principles, threat modeling, and disciplined testing to systems where correctness and availability are critical • Strong written and verbal communication, sound technical judgment, and ability to lead ambiguous, cross-team projects without constant direction • Experience with Ethereum, Solana, or other major blockchain protocols and their node, RPC, indexing, or transaction-processing architecture • Experience designing clean interfaces between Go services and Rust systems, libraries, or performance-sensitive components • Experience designing or reviewing cryptographic, wallet, signing, custody, or other security-sensitive systems • Experience with Kafka, queues, event-driven services, distributed databases, or large-scale observability systems • Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture ownership, mentorship, incident leadership, or engineering standards adopted by multiple teams • Must be legally authorized to work within the US without company sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefit package in all locations where Quicknode operates • Flexible way of working • Equal opportunity employment protections

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