Infrastructure Engineer

About Paradex

Paradex isn’t just another decentralized exchange—it’s a Super App. We’ve combined three powerful financial primitives: Exchange, Asset Management, and Borrow/Lend Markets, all seamlessly composable and accessible through one unified account that uses your entire portfolio as collateral, including any spot and derivative assets. Trade, earn, borrow, lend, and grow your on-chain identity—all in one place. Backed by top-tier investors and incubated by Paradigm, we are scaling rapidly. Come help us grow!

Quick Facts

• $50 Billion Lifetime Volume
• $180 Million Average Daily Volume
• $35 Million Total Value Locked
• Paradex is committed to building transparently in public 👉 key platform stats

Your mission

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll report directly to our Director of Engineering - Clement Ho - and play a pivotal role in shaping a DeFi ecosystem that’s transparent, adaptable, and at the forefront of innovation. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in blockchain and finance, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

What You'll Do

• Lead Reliability: Own the site reliability process from design to deployment, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Teach: Guide the software engineering team on best practices and work together to evolve our engineering processes.
• Mastermind infrastructure: Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters across environments, and build core services that drive our platform.
• Incident Response: Resolve production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and high performance.
• Team Leadership: Help build and lead a high-velocity, adaptable infrastructure engineering team.

What You’ll Bring

• SRE Expertise: Deep experience in site reliability engineering within multi-datacenter cloud environments with high demands on uptime, performance, and security.
• Technical Acumen: Strong background in AWS, Kubernetes, docker, terraform and software engineering, with the ability to adopt and integrate open-source and commercial technologies.
• Leadership: Proven experience in leading teams and projects, with the ability to work closely with senior management to prioritize and allocate resources effectively.
• Advanced Infrastructure: Experience with cloud infrastructure, low-latency systems, HashiCorp tools, and multi-cloud environments.
• Cloud Security: Expertise in securing complex cloud network architectures.

At Paradex 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