[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer: Trading Infrastructure @Gauntlet

Role Description

Join our derivatives trading team and work on the key infrastructure that powers our product offering as well as trading systems. Work with a team with decades of experience in tech and finance to build the backbone of our high-performance derivatives trading strategies. You'll work close to trading, own critical infrastructure end-to-end, and ship systems that manage real capital in live crypto markets.

• Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production.
• Build low-latency and streaming systems for real-time and near real-time workloads.
• Develop data pipelines and ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and serving data.
• Build and maintain application services and APIs used by internal and external systems.
• Implement Web3 protocol integrations, including smart contract interactions and on-chain data ingestion via RPCs, logs, and indexers.
• Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, observability, and operational correctness.
• Participate in incident response, debugging production issues and driving root-cause fixes.
• Contribute to system design and code reviews, maintaining high engineering standards.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and system understanding, while exercising strong engineering judgment.
• Write and maintain technical documentation for systems and workflows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Web3 systems, including interacting with smart contracts and consuming on-chain data.
• Experience with streaming or messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Experience with data storage systems (e.g. Postgres, ClickHouse).
• Experience deploying and operating software in cloud environments (e.g. GCP).
• Familiarity with containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, secrets management).

Requirements

• Previous experience at financial or trading firms.
• Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity).
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Dagster).
• Experience operating systems with strict reliability or performance requirements.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code or CI/CD systems.

Benefits

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
• Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation.
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk.
• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees.
• Laptop provided.
• $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining.
• $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses.
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks.
• Fertility benefits.