Senior Cryptocurrency Engineer
Published: 2 months ago
Polychain Capital
Polychain is an organization that helps people take better control of their blockchain investment,
The Role
**About Labs:**
Polychain Labs is a small, senior and general purpose team of engineers responsible for early digital asset network participation, securing a large amount of these assets and contributing open source infrastructure that helps scale these networks. As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for:
- Leading our participation in upcoming network launches from concept to production.
- Inventing technical, social, and industry solutions to whatever challenges arise along the way.
- Designing and launching systems that secure millions of dollars of cryptocurrency from motivated attackers and novel network edge cases.
- Collaborating closely with other senior engineers to ensure we’re never single point failures.
- Prioritizing uninterrupted time for creative experiments to inspire what’s next for our team and industry.
**Requirements**
- 5+ years experience engineering and operating 24/7 public-facing infrastructure
- Deep understanding of Google and Amazon cloud providers with experience codifying, automating and scaling services
- Comfortable managing a small number of bare-metal services attached to hardware security modules
- Experience designing cryptographic and procedural security protections, risk modeling and intrusion detection
- Hands-on understanding of cryptocurrency infrastructure and proof-of-stake economics
- Has designed, implemented and worked with various hot and cold key storage systems
**Why Polychain Labs:**
- Opportunity to impact the entire blockchain ecosystem from a macro-level
- Collaboration alongside blockchain’s brightest researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and financial experts
- Access the resources to bring your ideas to fruition
- Start-up feel with industry-wide impact and autonomy
- Offer a competitive salary, flexibility, and trust
Polychain Labs is a small, senior and general purpose team of engineers responsible for early digital asset network participation, securing a large amount of these assets and contributing open source infrastructure that helps scale these networks. As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for:
- Leading our participation in upcoming network launches from concept to production.
- Inventing technical, social, and industry solutions to whatever challenges arise along the way.
- Designing and launching systems that secure millions of dollars of cryptocurrency from motivated attackers and novel network edge cases.
- Collaborating closely with other senior engineers to ensure we’re never single point failures.
- Prioritizing uninterrupted time for creative experiments to inspire what’s next for our team and industry.
**Requirements**
- 5+ years experience engineering and operating 24/7 public-facing infrastructure
- Deep understanding of Google and Amazon cloud providers with experience codifying, automating and scaling services
- Comfortable managing a small number of bare-metal services attached to hardware security modules
- Experience designing cryptographic and procedural security protections, risk modeling and intrusion detection
- Hands-on understanding of cryptocurrency infrastructure and proof-of-stake economics
- Has designed, implemented and worked with various hot and cold key storage systems
**Why Polychain Labs:**
- Opportunity to impact the entire blockchain ecosystem from a macro-level
- Collaboration alongside blockchain’s brightest researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and financial experts
- Access the resources to bring your ideas to fruition
- Start-up feel with industry-wide impact and autonomy
- Offer a competitive salary, flexibility, and trust
More about Polychain Capital
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