Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Phylax Systems, a company securing the crypto industry, as a Platform Engineer. You will build and maintain critical infrastructure, enabling rapid feature releases and ensuring crypto safety and credibility. This role demands expertise in scaling servers, monitoring systems, and coding languages like Rust, Go, or Python. You'll design and own complex features, work independently, and collaborate within fast iteration cycles. The position offers the chance to contribute to core open-source crypto infrastructure and work on cutting-edge features. Phylax provides a remote-first work environment, flexible PTO, health insurance, and coverage for major industry conferences.

Requirements

• Proven experience in maintaining and scaling both bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems
• Skilled in monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure (Grafana-Prometheus-Loki-Tempo, Groundcover, etc.), with the ability to assist team members with troubleshooting
• Proficient in coding or scripting languages such as Rust, Go, or Python
• Capable of developing custom tools and contributing to open-source projects
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools, e.g., Kubernetes, and configuration management tools, e.g., Pulumi, Terraform, Helm
• Strong Linux and networking skills and experience with troubleshooting on Linux systems
• Background in securing and hardening infrastructure (uptime, self-healing, security requirements)

Responsibilities

• Be the key person who drives and executes our team's infrastructure
• Ability to design, drive, and own complex features throughout the whole lifecycle and handle input from various internal stakeholders
• Comfortable working independently, handling ambiguity, and managing undefined requirements
• Share innovative ideas to contribute to the team roadmap and consistently raise the bar for others with impactful contributions
• Comfortable working within fast iteration cycles, continuously optimizing through testing, benchmarking, and feedback from other peers

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Rust experience is beneficial but not required for Platform Engineers
• Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure, ideally Ethereum / OP-stack, is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Health Insurance
• Major industry conferences and events covered
• Remote-first, with a hub in NYC
• New MacBook