Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gauntlet is a leader in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics, managing significant market risk and growth for decentralized finance protocols. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their derivatives trading team, responsible for building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers their trading systems and product offerings.
- Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production
- Build low-latency and streaming systems for real-time and near real-time workloads
- Develop data pipelines and ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and serving data
- Build and maintain application services and APIs used by internal and external systems
- Implement Web3 protocol integrations, including smart contract interactions and on-chain data ingestion via RPCs, logs, and indexers
- Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, observability, and operational correctness
- Participate in incident response, debugging production issues and driving root-cause fixes
- Contribute to system design and code reviews, maintaining high engineering standards
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and system understanding, while exercising strong engineering judgment
- Write and maintain technical documentation for systems and workflows
- Skills
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems
- Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with Web3 systems, including interacting with smart contracts and consuming on-chain data
- Experience with streaming or messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub)
- Experience with data storage systems (e.g. Postgres, ClickHouse)
- Experience deploying and operating software in cloud environments (e.g. GCP)
- Familiarity with containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Understanding of SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, secrets management)
- Previous experience at financial or trading firms
- Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity)
- Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Dagster)
- Experience operating systems with strict reliability or performance requirements
- Exposure to infrastructure as code or CI/CD systems
- Benefits
- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- Laptop provided
- $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
- $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation policy
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Company Overview
- Gauntlet is a fintech company that develops solutions for risk management and simplifies tasks in cryptocurrency businesses. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.gauntlet.xyz.
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