# Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Ellipsis Labs

Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Ellipsis Labs in New York, New York. Full-time, paying $200k–$250k. Posted January 11, 2024.

- Company: Ellipsis Labs
- Location: New York, New York
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $200k–$250k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2024-01-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ellipsislabs/53f2b34d-2c98-4a88-9da1-aa1230746377/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/staff-infrastructure-engineer-ellipsis-labs-48z772

## Description

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.
The OpportunityEllipsis 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