Protocol Engineer - Vice President (Platform)

Job Description

Galaxy is seeking a Protocol Engineer - Vice President to join their Blockchain Engineering Team in Hong Kong. The company is a digital asset and blockchain leader focused on helping institutions, startups, and individuals navigate the crypto economy. The Protocol Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to Galaxy's blockchain participation and custody offerings.Role involves:

• Designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.
• Identifying and implementing solutions to improve infrastructure operation.
• Developing a present and forward-looking view of the domain and its application to the business.
• Continuously researching emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space.
• Debugging complex distributed blockchains and protocols.
• Implementing monitoring and observability tools.
• Participating in on-call rotations.
• Developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools.

Requirements:

• Prior software engineering or application development experience.
• Ability to script in a high-level scripting language.
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain.
• Familiarity with compute-infrastructure systems, tooling, and debugging strategies.
• Troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows.
• Working knowledge of Linux systems.
• Expertise in cloud platforms and virtualization technologies.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Conceptual knowledge of security best practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Role offers:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus.
• Competitive paid time off.
• Company-paid health and protective benefits.
• Free virtual coaching sessions.
• Free daily snacks in-office.
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry.