At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets.
About Paradigm
- Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi.
- We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy.
- We’ve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month.
- We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry!
- We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.
The role
As a core member of our infrastructure team, you will build and maintain major features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time on cross-functional self-contained feature teams focused on delivering value to the customer, while other projects will be more internally focused on integrations, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Own the site reliability process and systems from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance
- Educate the platform software engineering team on reliability best practices and collaborate to evolve the software engineering process to accommodate reliability principles
- Provide service outage escalation response alongside software engineers
- Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
- Manage and build core services and infrastructure across the entire engineering organization
- Help build an adaptable, high-velocity team
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist in resolving production incidents
Things that we believe are critical
- Expertise in Security and DevSecOps
- Strong compliance knowledge - SOC 2
- Expertise in site reliability engineering in a multi-datacenter production cloud environment with demanding up-time, real-time performance, and security requirements
- Experience adopting and employing open-source, home-grown, and commercial technology products as appropriate in support of the Infra Engineering mission
- Strong familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience with leading teams and projects
- Comfort working with senior management to allocate and prioritize engineering energy in support of the Infra Engineering mission in a real-world resource-constrained environment
Extra Credit
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking in a production context
- Experience building and/or using low-latency cross-region databases or high-volume trading applications
- Experience with HashiCorp tools (Vault, and Terraform)
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres
- Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Expertise in cloud network security
This position is flexible on-site or hybrid position at our headquarters office in Singapore. We are able to provide financial and logistical support for work Visa procurement and relocation for Singapore, if applicable.
At Paradigm we're doing something different. Moving forward we ask all candidates to send in a video with their application, telling us why they want to be part of the team.
The video should be no longer than 1 minute and via a link to a streaming platform of your choice. (No files or download links will be accepted)
Your Perks & Benefits
- Competitive Pay: Top-tier compensation in the industry.
- Generous PTO: Unlimited vacation.
- Full Benefits: Comprehensive packages tailored by country.
- Technology & Learning Allowances: 3,500 USD for your first-year setup, $2,000 USD refresh every 2 years, plus $1,000 USD annually for learning and development.
Paradigm is an equal opportunity employer.
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Healthcare Strength — Full medical, dental, and vision coverage with FSA is listed on the careers page. Feedback suggests core health coverage is comprehensive for a firm of this size.
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What We Do
Paradigm is a unified, non-custodial liquidity network for crypto derivative traders across CeFi and Defi. The free-to-use platform provides a single point of access to multi-asset, multi-leg, multi-protocol liquidity on-demand, without compromising on price, size, execution costs and immediacy. Paradigm is backed by Jump Capital, Alameda Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, Genesis Trading, QCP Capital, Nexo, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Babel Finance, MGNR, Avon Ventures, CMT Digital, Pattern Research, Vectr Fintech, Amber Group and some of the most influential private investors in the OTC markets.
