Remote Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Paradigm, a zero-fee institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi markets. As a core member of our infrastructure team, you will build and maintain major features, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company.

Requirements

• Expertise in Security and DevSecOps
• Strong compliance knowledge - SOC 2
• Expertise in site reliability engineering in a multi-datacenter production cloud environment with demanding up-time, real-time performance, and security requirements
• Experience adopting and employing open-source, home-grown, and commercial technology products as appropriate in support of the Infra Engineering mission
• Strong familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience with leading teams and projects
• Comfort working with senior management to allocate and prioritize engineering energy in support of the Infra Engineering mission in a real-world resource-constrained environment

Responsibilities

• Own the site reliability process and systems from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance
• Educate the platform software engineering team on reliability best practices and collaborate to evolve the software engineering process to accommodate reliability principles
• Provide service outage escalation response alongside software engineers
• Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Manage and build core services and infrastructure across the entire engineering organization
• Help build an adaptable, high-velocity team
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist in resolving production incidents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking in a production context
• Experience building and/or using low-latency cross-region databases or high-volume trading applications
• Experience with HashiCorp tools (Vault, and Terraform)
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres
• Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Expertise in cloud network security

Benefits

• Competitive pay and transparent pay bands
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited vacation with a minimum required PTO of 10 days annually
• Celebrate your national holidays, in addition to floating holidays, to honor what matters to you, not HQ
• Full benefits (benefits vary by country)
• Generous technology and learning allowances
• $3500 first-year budget to spend on your computer, peripherals, office essentials...whatever makes you most efficient and comfortable. You'll then receive a $2000 refresh every 2 years
• $1000 budget to spend on learning and development materials, courses or conferences