Solana Protocol Engineer - Associate/Vice President

Who We Are:
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world and were building the products and services to make that future a reality.

Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading investment banking asset management staking self-custody and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.

We work at the intersection of finance and technology helping institutions startups and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.

Galaxy is headquartered in New York City with offices across North America Europe the Middle East and Asia.

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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 mission-first 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 Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are:

The Blockchain Engineering Team is 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.

What Youll Do:

• Design build and maintain highly available scalable and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional 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 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.
• 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 on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services.
• Work through others to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment scaling and recovery processes.

What Were Looking For:

• You are an experienced Protocol DevOps or SRE Engineer with;

  • Hands-on experience operating Solana
  • Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net Go Rust C/C Java etc.)
  • Ability to script in a high-level 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 (proof-of-stake consensus web3 rpc etc)
  • Deep familiarity with compute-infrastructure 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).
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Datadog LogDNA etc.)
  • Conceptual knowledge of security best practices including encryption access control andnetwork security (firewalls traffic filtering).
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical 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 software engineering experience.
• Hands on experience operating 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 on-chain activity.
• Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure.

What We Offer:

• 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

*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