Polychain Labs is a small, senior team of infrastructure engineers powering the largest proof-of-stake operations in the world.  We’re often the first participants in new networks and help them design and scale for success. We secure a large amount of these assets and contribute back open source tooling, architectures and designs that help our networks mature.   This Cryptocurrency Infrastructure Engineering role is responsible for leading our participation in current and future networks.

Job Responsibilities

• Leading our participation in upcoming network launches from concept to production.
• Designing and implementing secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure to produce and validate blocks on these networks.
• Creating systems that secure millions of dollars of cryptocurrency from motivated attackers.
• Inventing technical, social, and industry solutions to whatever challenges arise along the way. 
• Collaborating closely with other senior engineers to ensure we’re never single point failures.
• Prioritizing creative time to explore what might be next for our team and industry.

Requirements

• Passionate about cryptocurrency and the impact it can have on the world
• Hands-on experience working with cryptocurrency networks, nodes and smart contracts
• Has designed, built, launched and scaled successful engineering projects
• Respects the challenges associated with securing key material and managing novel risk
• Experience implementing cloud infrastructure, datacenter design and codifying, automating and scaling services.

Why Polychain Labs

• Opportunity to collaborate alongside some of blockchain’s most experienced researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and financial experts.
• Access to the scale and resources needed to power the future of our industry.
• Start-up size with industry-wide impact and autonomy.
• Competitive salary, flexibility, and fun

Polychain is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Polychain does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.