Crypto Production Engineer
Crypto Production Engineer
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Job Description
Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics Physics and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries push through them and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness creativity intellectual honesty and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design develop and deploy technologies that change our world fund startups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.
Our Production Engineering team is a global team that supports Jumps diverse global trading infrastructure that operates across many global traditional and crypto financial markets. The team is responsible for everything from low level infrastructure to custom applications making heavy use of both internally developed and opensource software. We are looking for someone who loves learning new cuttingedge technologies and getting their hands dirty to solve challenging technical problems.
What youll do:
- Help build manage and maintain a sophisticated validator infrastructure and tooling for one of the worlds top proprietary trading firms.
- Working with software that is bleedingedge and doing interesting things (consensus algorithms distributed systems cryptography) which often presents challenging technical problems.
- Take responsibility for a wide range of onchain infrastructure including validators light clients and RPC nodes.
- Improve monitoring and alerting systems for crypto infrastructure which enable quick and effective problem resolution.
- Experiment with the newest technologies and keep abreast of new developments in the blockchain ecosystem.
- Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management server hardening intrusion detection and security best practices are important themes.
- Contribute to external partnerships that directly impact Jumps bottom line.
- Engagement in public forums for community awareness and knowledge transfer.
- Work with a globally distributed team to maintain high availability.
- Other duties as assigned or needed.
Skills youll need:
- A passion for blockchain technology and an insatiable desire to learn.
- Willingness to move quickly work in a flat fastpaced team and juggle competing priorities.
- Previous experience with managing proofofstake blockchain infrastructure preferably on Solana or Ethereum.
- A deep understanding of software engineering principles Linux Kubernetes monitoring/alerting (Prometheus/Alertmanager) networking and experience across both cloudbased and baremetal infrastructure.
- Prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools (Terraform Ansible and Salt).
- Extensive experience designing building and maintaining complex systems.
- Familiarity with onchain trading DeFi and risk management is preferred but not required.
- High proficiency with bash scripting and experience in at least one other programming language. Popular languages at Jump are Python Golang and Rust.
- Reliable and predictable availability.
Benefits
Discretionary bonus eligibilityMedical dental and vision insurance
HSA FSA and Dependent Care options
Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
Paid vacation plus paid holidays
Retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave
Wellness Programs
Employment Type
Full Time
