Solana Protocol Engineer - Associate/Vice President

Job Description

Galaxy is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Solana Protocol Engineer to join their Blockchain Engineering Team in Hong Kong. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to Galaxy's blockchain participation and custody offerings. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response.

• Designing, building, and maintaining blockchain infrastructure
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Identifying and implementing solutions for process improvement
• Staying up-to-date with 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

• Hands-on experience operating Solana
• Prior software engineering or application development experience
• Ability to script in Python, Perl, or bash
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure or 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 and command-line tooling
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) 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

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