Protocol Engineer - Associate; Platform

At Galaxy we are building products and services to help the world invest in economic progress. We believe crypto and blockchain innovations will permeate and improve all aspects of our global economy. Our vision is a society where value and ownership flow as freely as information. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals access and navigate the crypto economy.

As one of the most well‑capitalized and trusted companies in the industry, we provide platform solutions custom‑made for a digitally native ecosystem across three complementary operating businesses:
Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Our offerings include, amongst others, trading, lending, strategic advisory services, institutional‑grade investment solutions across passive, active and venture strategies, proprietary bitcoin mining and hosting services, network validator services, and the development of enterprise custodial technology. Galaxy’s CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz leads a team of crypto enthusiasts, and institutional veterans focused on the future of finance and Web
3. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with global offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

Additional information about the Company's businesses and products is available on

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission‑first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Build Dream Teams.

The Blockchain Engineering Team is responsible for deploying, securing, and optimizing validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks. Specializing in launching and maintaining validators, we ensure high availability, security, and performance to support decentralized networks.

As part of this team, you will design, deploy, and manage validator nodes, enhance automation workflows, monitor network performance, and implement robust security measures. The team collaborates closely with blockchain protocols, foundations, staking providers, and infrastructure partners to ensure seamless validator operations.

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.
• Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure.
• Develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business. Establish and communicate views that inform leadership and organizational strategy.
• Continuously research and stay up‑to‑date with emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space.
• Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business.
• Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve our participation.
• Implement monitoring, observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure.
• Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on‑call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services.
• Work through others, to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

You are an experienced Protocol, Dev Ops or SRE Engineer with;

• Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.)
• Ability to script in a high‑level scripting language like Python, Perl or bash coupled with an ability to identify human processes that…