Protocol / Backend Engineer (V.P.)

Role Overview

Join Galaxy as a Protocol / Backend Engineer (V.P.) (full remote). You’ll design, build, and maintain secure, scalable blockchain products and infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams and researching emerging web3/blockchain trends.

Key Missions

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure blockchain products, systems, and infrastructure.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.
• Research and scope new opportunities in the web3/blockchain ecosystem, staying current with emerging trends.

Responsibilities

• Debug complex distributed blockchain systems.
• Implement monitoring/observability tools.
• Participate in on-call rotations.
• Build backend services in addition to core infrastructure work.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end application flows spanning multiple systems (server, network, and application).
• Support/operate validator or RPC infrastructure.
• Contribute to incident response with measurable remediation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise in cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with virtualization/compute technologies (e.g., VMWARE/KVM/Docker or similar).
• Working knowledge of Linux, performance optimization, and command-line tooling.
• Strong problem-solving and ability to find root causes to completion.
• Demonstrated experience in blockchain infrastructure or strong blockchain domain knowledge (e.g., proof-of-stake, web3, RPC).
• Prior application/backend engineering in modern languages (.NET, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.).
• Strong observability/debugging approach and research aptitude.
• Hands-on monitoring/observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, LogDNA).
• Security knowledge (encryption, access control, network security such as firewalls/traffic filtering).
• Scripting ability in Python/Perl/bash for automation.
• Experience/knowledge of custody key management, HSMs, and MPC.
• Written/verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice-to-Haves / Additional Signals

• Experience or awareness with Chainlink systems/services.
• Ability to work with on-chain activity (reading/parsing).
• Kubernetes or similar orchestration; familiarity with container orchestration.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

Compensation & Benefits (mentioned)

Equity exposure, 401(k) contributions, flexible time off, and fully paid health benefits plus perks.