Protocol Engineer - Vice President (Validators)

Job Description

Galaxy is seeking a Vice President, Protocol Engineer to join their Blockchain Engineering Team. This role is based in Hong Kong and focuses on deploying, securing, and optimizing validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks.Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals access and navigate the crypto economy. The company provides platform solutions custom-made for a digitally native ecosystem across three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions.What this role involves:

• Designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to blockchain participation and custody offerings.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.
• Identifying and implementing solutions for domain-specific areas where process, automation, or tooling can significantly improve operational capabilities.
• Developing a present and forward-looking view of domain happenings and their application to the business, informing leadership and organizational strategy.
• Continuously researching and staying up-to-date with emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space.
• Identifying, scoping, and building new product opportunities that may bring value to the business.
• Debugging complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve participation.
• Implementing monitoring and observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of blockchain infrastructure.
• Participating in and making improvements to domain-specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of services.
• Working through others to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

Requirements:

• Experienced Protocol, DevOps, or SRE Engineer.
• Prior software engineering or application development experience in a 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 the ability to identify human processes that can be scripted and automated.
• Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake consensus, web3, rpc, etc.).
• Deep familiarity with compute-infrastructure systems, tooling, observability, debugging strategies, along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice.
• Troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple systems, along with the ability to identify server, network, and application issues and apply measurable remediations.
• Working knowledge of Linux systems, system performance optimization, and command-line tooling.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare, KVM, Docker or similar).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, LogDNA, etc.).
• Conceptual knowledge of security best practices, including encryption, access control, and network security (firewalls, traffic filtering).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution.

What Galaxy offers:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Competitive paid time off
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free virtual coaching sessions through Headspace
• Free daily snacks in-office
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues