Principal Infrastructure Engineer
At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets.
About Paradigm
- Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi.
- We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy.
- We’ve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month.
- We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry!
- We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.
Your mission
As a Principal 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.
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.
Paradigm is an equal opportunity employer.
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