Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gauntlet is a leader in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics, managing significant market risk and growth for decentralized finance protocols. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their derivatives trading team, responsible for building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers their trading systems and product offerings.
Responsibilities
• 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
Skills
• 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)
• 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
Company Overview
• Gauntlet is a fintech company that develops solutions for risk management and simplifies tasks in cryptocurrency businesses. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.gauntlet.xyz.