Solana Protocol Engineer - AssociateVice President

Who We Are:

At Galaxy we are building products and services to help the world invest in economic progress. We believe crypto and blockchain innovations will permeate and improve all aspects of our global economy. Our vision is a society where value and ownership flow as freely as information. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions startups and individuals access and navigate the crypto economy. As one of the most wellcapitalized and trusted companies in the industry we provide platform solutions custommade for a digitally native ecosystem across three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets Asset Management and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Our offerings include amongst others trading lending strategic advisory services institutionalgrade investment solutions across passive active and venture strategies proprietary bitcoin mining and hosting services network validator services and the development of enterprise custodial technology. Galaxys CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz leads a team of crypto enthusiasts and institutional veterans focused on the future of finance and Web3. The Company is headquartered in New York City with global offices across North America Europe and Asia.

Additional information about the Companys businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individualswhothrive in a culture of builders and overachieversandembrace high performance transparent feedback and a missionfirst approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent DecisionMaking.
• Build Dream Teams.

What Youll Do:

TheBlockchain Engineering Teamis responsible for deploying securing and optimizing validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks. Specializing in launching and maintaining validators we ensure high availability security and performance to support decentralized networks.

As part of this team you will design deploy and manage validator nodes enhance automation workflows monitor network performance and implement robust security measures. The team collaborates closely with blockchain protocols foundations staking providers and infrastructure partners to ensure seamless validator operations.

• Design build and maintain highly available scalable and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure monitoring system automation and incident response
• Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure
• Develop a present and forward looking view into whats 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 uptodate 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
• Implement monitoring observability tools and best practices to ensure the health performance and stability of our blockchain infrastructure
• Participate in and make improvements to domain specific oncall rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services

What Were Looking For:

You are an experienced Protocol DevOps or SRE Engineer with:

• Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language .Net Go Rust C/C Java etc.
• Ability to script in a highlevel scripting language like Python Perl or bash coupled with an ability to identify human processes that can be scripted and automated
• Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proofofstake consensus web3 rpc etc)
• Deep familiarity with computeinfrastructure systems tooling observability debugging strategies along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice
• Troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple systems along with an ability to identify server network and application issues and apply measurable remediations
• Working knowledge of Linux systems system performance optimization and command line tooling
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare KVM Docker or similar)
• Handson experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Datadog LogDNA etc.
• Conceptual knowledge of security best practices including encryption access control and network security (firewalls traffic filtering)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems determine their root cause and see them through to solution

Bonus Points:

• At least 2 years of protocol engineering experience
• Hands on experience operating Solana Ethereum or similar validation infrastructure (or RPC)
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar compute orchestration systems and a familiarity with container orchestration
• Skill in defining infrastructure as code with Terraform or other infrastructure orchestration tooling
• Experience participating in or reading/parsing onchain activity
• Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Companypaid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart entrepreneurial and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups

*Benefits may vary depending on location.

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age race color creed religion sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation marital or partnership or caregiver status ancestry national origin citizenship status disability military or veteran status protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic or other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview please contact