Galaxy · 6 hours ago
VP, Protocol Engineer (Validators)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
4+ years expGalaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. The Protocol Engineer will be responsible for deploying, securing, and optimizing validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks, ensuring high availability, security, and performance to support decentralized networks.
Asset ManagementBankingCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response
Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure
Develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business. Establish and communicate views that inform leadership and organizational strategy
Continuously research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space
Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business
Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve our participation
Implement monitoring, observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure
Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services
Work through others, to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes
Qualification
Required
Prior software engineering or application development experience in 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 an 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 an 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
Preferred
4+ years of software engineering experience
Hands on experience operating Solana, Ethereum or similar validation infrastructure (or RPC)
Experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems and a familiarity with container orchestration
Skill in defining infrastructure as code with Terraform or other infrastructure orchestration tooling
Experience participating in or reading/parsing on-chain activity
Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure
Benefits
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
Company
Galaxy
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.71BKey Investors
Michael NovogratzHCM Capital
2025-12-11Post Ipo Debt· $50M
2025-10-27Post Ipo Debt· $1.15B
2025-10-10Post Ipo Equity· $460M
Leadership Team
Sam Englebardt
Co-Founder and Partner
Luka Jankovic
Portfolio Manager
Recent News
2025-12-26
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