VP, Protocol / Backend Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in US
Remote
Mid level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Quantitative Trading
We are the bridge between the crypto and the institutional worlds.
The Role
Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.
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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 we’re 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.
 
To learn more about our businesses and products, visit www.galaxy.com.

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 individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace 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.

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure blockchain products, systems and infrastructure 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 what’s 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 We’re Looking For:

  • Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.)
  • Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake consensus, web3, rpc, etc)
  • Strong concepts of custody key management, generation, HSMs and MPC technologies.
  • Experience or awareness in working with Chainlink systems, services or ecosystem.
  • 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.
  • 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, and network 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 4 years of software engineering experience.
  • Hands on experience operating validator or RPC infrastructure solutions.
  • 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 [email protected]

Skills Required

  • Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming languages (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java)
  • Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake, web3, rpc)
  • Strong concepts of custody key management, generation, HSMs and MPC technologies
  • Experience or awareness in working with Chainlink systems, services or ecosystem
  • Ability to script in a high-level scripting language like Python, Perl or bash
  • Deep familiarity with compute-infrastructure systems, tooling, observability, and debugging strategies
  • Troubleshooting expertise across server, network, and application issues with 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)
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, LogDNA)
  • Conceptual knowledge of security best practices including encryption, access control, and network security
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify root causes and implement solutions
  • At-least 4 years of software engineering experience
  • Hands on experience operating validator or RPC infrastructure solutions
  • Experience with Kubernetes or similar compute orchestration systems
  • Skill in defining infrastructure as code with Terraform or other orchestration tooling
  • Experience participating in or reading/parsing on-chain activity
  • Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
335 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY) is a tech-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining. Galaxy Digital's CEO and Founder is Mike Novogratz. Galaxy Digital is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands (registered office), and New Jersey. Our mission is to drive systems change through technology. Today, we are primarily focused on digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, and how these technological innovations will drastically alter the way we store and transfer value.

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