Staff Infrastructure Engineer
- Location
- New York, NY
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Rust
- C++
- Golang
- Unix systems
- AWS
Also useful
- Solana
- blockchain
- quant trading
The Opportunity
Ellipsis Labs is seeking our first full-time Infrastructure engineer to join the team. (We've had a part-time advisor and helper on this so far!) The ideal candidate would consider themselves an infrastructure or systems generalist, excited to tackle sensitive and high-performance financial technology that needs 5+ 9's of reliability.
In this role, you will
- Set foundational infrastructure best practices and architecture
- Develop and own the team's DevOps processes
- Ensure the security and monitoring of critical production systems
Qualifications
Required
- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (ideally in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code
- 3+ years of experience with Unix systems and DevOps
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
- Passion for decentralized finance
Preferred
- Experience working with blockchain technology, preferably Solana
- Experience in quant trading or fintech
About Ellipsis Labs
Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.
From Ellipsis Labs's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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