Staff SRE Engineer (Platform)

Our crypto wallet is used by millions of people to access apps and financial services built on the Solana blockchain plus many others. As a SRE engineer you’ll own and scale our Kubernetes infrastructure, manage mission-critical systems, and optimize performance to support our cutting-edge Web3 crypto wallet. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency across our infrastructure

This role is fully remote; however, we’re only open to candidates based in the US, EU and UK. Currently, Phantom cannot support employees from the following countries and continents: Russia, Pakistan, Ukraine, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.

This role is fully remote; however, we’re only open to candidates based in US and EU time zones

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Ownership: Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.

• Infrastructure Automation: Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi) to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.

• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, and resource utilization.

• Blockchain Infrastructure: Configure and maintain crypto nodes across multiple blockchains to support our wallet’s operations.

• Database Scaling: Optimize and scale database infrastructure to handle terabytes of blockchain data efficiently.

• System Reliability: Continuously improve system uptime, monitoring, and observability using tools like Datadog and OpenTelemetry.

• Collaboration: Work closely with backend and product teams to support feature development and system scaling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a SRE or Software Engineer role.

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments.

• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM).

• Solid experience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.

• Monitoring and observability experience using tools like Datadog or OpenTelemetry.

Why Work with Us

Opportunity

We are a team of experienced builders with a ton of traction in a big and growing market – our users are so passionate they were hacking their way into our private beta. We've acquired millions of users in our 2+ years and are adding more every week. We are by far the leading wallet on Solana, and have recently expanded onto other chains including Ethereum.

On top of that, there has never been a better time to work in crypto and on wallets in particular.

• Wallets play a pivotal role: Wallets are responsible for on-boarding new users into crypto, and can make or break the user experience.

• We are moving to a multi-chain world: New blockchains and scaling solutions are coming online and gaining traction, but are lacking decent wallets and bridges.

• DeFi & NFTs are exploding : Interest in DeFi and NFTs has exploded, yet they are still an after-thought in existing wallets.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered

• Stipend for your ideal remote / WFH set-up: laptop, headphones, and any other work gear you may need

• Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment

• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Wellness benefit

• Daily lunch benefit

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

The target base salary for this role will range between $200,000 to $250,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.