As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build tools for blockchain development, define upgrade strategies, and ensure engineering best practices.
At dYdX you'll have an opportunity to build state-of-the-art decentralized technologies that will redefine global financial markets. By joining us at this stage in our growth, you will help make fundamental decisions that will shape the course of dYdX.
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ABOUT dYdX:
- We’ve built the software underlying the world’s leading decentralized exchange for advanced trading of crypto derivatives
- dYdX is founded by an ex-Coinbase, ex-Uber engineer, with a Princeton CS background. Our team has previous experience at Coinbase, Uniswap, Google, Amazon, Lyft, Meta and other top companies
- We're a world-class team with top backers and advisors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, and more
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build automation and tools to accelerate blockchain software development and streamline deployment on cloud infrastructure
- Own and define our blockchain upgrade strategy to make the best trade-off between safety and iteration speed
- Define the release cycle and manage forward and backward compatibility for the dYdX protocol, backend services, web app, and mobile app
- Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews, performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements
- Here are some specific examples of projects you could contribute to:
- Build software that enables spinning up a testnet with test validators from a mainnet snapshot state.
- Build software tools to inspect blockchain state and troubleshoot consensus failures.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer
- You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a good understanding of CS fundamentals
- You have a strong interest in building automation systems
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platform, and/or developer infrastructure
NICE TO HAVES:
- Experience with open-source software release
- Interest in blockchain technology and consensus algorithms
Salary range for this role is $210K to $270K USD (NY). Compensation subject to experience and location. Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws, and do not include possible variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.
Top Skills
AWS
Blockchain Technologies
Cloud Infrastructure
dYdX New York, New York, USA Office
503 Broadway, PH Suite, New York, NY, United States, 10003
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