Senior Systems Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement system-level components for blockchain infrastructure using C, C++, and Rust with emphasis on computer systems analysis and implementation.
• Gather requirements for high-throughput, low-latency (≤ 200 ms p95) services; design distributed systems that meet 99.9% availability SLAs.
• Perform benchmarking and performance profiling to enhance execution efficiency.
• Specify, version, and maintain public and internal APIs plus JSON-RPC/gRPC endpoints; document interfaces and generate strongly typed client libraries.
• Collaborate on the development of secure, low-latency networking protocols and cryptographic primitives.
• Build fault-tolerant ETL pipelines that transform on-chain events into query-optimized relational & NoSQL stores; tune indexes for millisecond reads.
• Provision and scale commodity server fleets (on-prem & cloud); automate with Terraform/Kubernetes, monitor health, capacity, and SLOs.
• Migrate legacy computing pipelines to modern CI/CD frameworks.
• Support the design of fault-tolerant systems with advanced debugging, logging, and error recovery functionality.
• Model token-economic incentives, auction fee markets, and validator/operator behaviors; prototype algorithms and run agent-based simulations.
• Leverage generative-AI coding agents, static analyzers, and self-healing runbooks to accelerate delivery and cut MTTR.
• Review performance metrics to refine software components for memory and processor efficiency.
• Profile CPU, I/O, and network paths; execute load-tests; instrument metrics/tracing/logs; drive post-mortems and capacity plans.
• Maintain and manage a performant suite of APIs, SDKs, and developer tools for external developers.
• Integrate cryptographic primitives, secure key management, vulnerability scanning, and incident response playbooks.
• Write RFCs, lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery with product, infra, and legal teams.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Economics, Business Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10 years of experience as a Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Software Developer, Information Technology Officer, or related occupation.
• Systems programming in C, C++, and Rust.
• Low-level performance optimization and hardware interfacing.
• Distributed systems and threading runtimes.
• CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions and on-prem infrastructure.
• Work with multiple systems including web development platforms, high-performance computing systems, core operating system kernels, developer tools, and systems related to economic applications.
• Develop distributed ledger technologies or crypto economic distributed systems.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with high-frequency trading and scaling developer ecosystems.
• Familiarity with generative-AI coding agents, static analyzers, and self-healing runbooks.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary: $213,512 - $220,000 USD.
• Significant equity and upside potential.
• Flexible work environment.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Health insurance.
• Hardware and development tool allowance.
• Conference and learning budget.