Blockchain Infrastructure / Reliability Engineer Full Time

GSR is a leading market-making and programmatic trading company in the exciting and fast-evolving world of cryptocurrency trading. We provide sophisticated execution and liquidity services to token projects, institutional and HNW investors, and crypto exchanges.

Our success in this rapidly evolving market is due primarily to staying ahead of the curve and building atop a core technology infrastructure that is purpose-built to serve the ever changing needs of cryptocurrency markets and builders.

GSR is looking for Blockchain Infrastructure / Reliability Engineers to join our global organisation on a full-time basis. With the rapid pace of innovation in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), we seek to increasingly become the leading institutional partner for DeFi builders and those seeking access to DeFi markets. To further this objective, GSR is looking for talented technologists and product leaders to expand our offerings in this exciting space.

Responsibilities:

• Managing cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP) with IaC (Terraform) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Driving forward our blockchain infrastructure by creating blockchain nodes and managing validators for a wide variety of new and existing blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Terra, and others.
• Deploying and maintaining products, services, and network components with a focus on security, reliability, and zero downtime
• Automating and streamlining existing processes to aid the development team leveraging these networks for reading and writing transactions to and from the various blockchains we support
• Implementing a large cross-cloud and on-premise resilient infrastructure to allow for global coverage
• Seize opportunities to automate the configuration and deployment of various services, data ingestion and ETL jobs
• Instrument infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), and tracing using infrastructure monitoring tools combined with Ansible roles and Terraform providers
• Assess and recommend various software architectures and build frameworks, optimizing across cost, performance, resiliency/fault tolerance, load balancing and data consistency
• Build out self service controlled build, release, and deployments for developers to help increase product delivery
• Work closely with our product, research, and capital markets leads on both prototyping and iterative development

Qualifications:

• 8+ years working with distributed systems at scale in IT
• 5+ years APM and infrastructure monitoring experience
• 5+ years DevOps experience
• 5+ years experience in cloud platform administration (preferably AWS)
• 3+ years experience in automated configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet) and continuous delivery systems
• 3+ years experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, Masters/PhD a plus
• Strong knowledge of IT Security (encryption, firewalls, secure systems design, vulnerability management, secure software design, credential management, proxies, WAFs, etc.)
• Experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Scala, Javascript, Go
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to explain complex technical topics to both internal and external customers with ease
• Passionate about IT, technology, and following the latest industry trends
• Experience with Security best practices, tools and technologies a plus
• Experience working with database stores such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Vertica a plus
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform and CloudFormation a plus
• Certifications in AWS, Docker, Ansible, and/or Security (e.g. CISSP, CEH, Security+, etc.) a plus
• Experience with distributed blockchain systems, running and maintaining blockchain full nodes

Founded in 2013, we specialize in providing liquidity, risk management and structured products to institutional participants in the digital asset ecosystem. Our team of veteran finance and technology executives from Goldman Sachs, Two Sigma, Citadel, Blackstone and Tower Research among others, has developed one of the world’s fastest and most robust trading platforms.

GSR works with token issuers, traders, investors, miners, and more than 50 cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. As a founding member of The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM), GSR is also a leader in establishing and maintaining industry standards and protocols to support the healthy development and evolution of the global digital assets serving key exchanges and clients globally. GSR is an international company with operations in the USA, Europe and Asia.

GSR is proudly an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon any applicable legally protected characteristics such as race, religion, colour, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression or age. We operate a meritocracy, all aspects of people engagement from the decision to hire or promote as well as our performance management process will be based on the business needs and individual merit, competence in the role.

Learn more about us at www.gsr.io.