Senior Software Engineer Blockchain Infrastructure

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 mandate fundamental decisions that will shape the course of dYdX.

• 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.
• 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.

• 5+ years experience working as a full‑time developer.
• Write secure, efficient, high‑quality code and have a strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• Strong interest in building automation systems.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platform, and/or developer infrastructure.

• Experience with open‑source software release.
• Interest in blockchain technology and consensus algorithms.

Salary range for this role is $175K to $270K USD (NY). Compensation is subject to experience and location. Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws and do not include variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.