Infrastructure Engineer, Injective Labs
Decentralized finance blockchain
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Decentralized finance blockchain
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a more free and inclusive financial paradigm through decentralization.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles
- Deep expertise in managing production-quality Kubernetes clusters, with experience in large-scale cluster operation being a significant advantage
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Helm, ArgoCD, Docker
- Pulumi and/or Ansible (preferred over Terraform)
- GCP as a primary cloud, with working knowledge of AWS or Azure
- Experience managing bare metal infrastructure, including provisioning, networking, and performance tuning
- Proven ability to operate high-performance, large-scale systems, ideally in blockchain or trading environments
- Experience with blockchain systems (Ethereum, Tendermint/Cosmos SDK, or similar)
- Experience with high-throughput messaging systems (Kafka, Redpanda)
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and low-level debugging
- Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency
- Familiarity with observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; Signoz is a plus)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs)
- Knowledge of advanced security practices, database administration (ie. mongoDB), and high-throughput message queues
- Fluent in English
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
- Based in a timezone with significant overlap with US Eastern Time (ET)
Desirable
- Experience operating validators or participating in blockchain networks
- Experience in latency-sensitive environments (trading, HFT, market making)
- Experience with production security practices
- Experience with databases such as Postgres or MongoDB
What the job involves
- Injective Labs is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to help design, build, and operate the core infrastructure powering the protocol
- This role spans both cloud and bare metal environments, supporting high-performance blockchain systems and low-latency trading workloads. We are looking for someone who can operate at scale, move quickly, and bring strong ownership over critical systems
- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Injective’s infrastructure across cloud and bare metal environments
- Design, deploy, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters
- Manage application delivery using Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps workflows)
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Pulumi and Ansible
- Deploy, operate, and optimize blockchain nodes and supporting services (validators, indexers, RPC, etc.)
- Design systems for low latency and high throughput, especially for trading and market data workloads
- Operate and scale streaming systems such as Kafka or Redpanda
- Maintain and improve observability across the stack (metrics, logs, tracing), with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and optionally Signoz
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Kubernetes, networking, and Linux systems
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support product and protocol development
- Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across performance, reliability, and scalability
- Participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical systems
Our take
Financial institutions are increasingly turning to the potential of decentralized finance, using blockchain technology similar to that of cryptocurrency. However, development in that area is time consuming and prohibitively expensive. Injective aims to bring traditional finance institutions together with the decentralized finance ecosystem by providing an optimized blockchain and numerous modules to support decentralized app development.
Although cryptocurrency and blockchain-related firms are struggling against strong economic headwinds, Injective remains bullish about the future of decentralized finance in the Web3.0 sector. Centralized exchanges are likely to remain vulnerable to liquidity and stability issues and so users will look for infrastructure and tools that will allow them to have access to their finances at all times.
Injective also has substantial funding that it is using to develop new toolkits and upgrades for the Injective ecosystem, as well as to support developers on the platform. It is also investing in software engineering talent as well as marketing to promote community growth. These advancements for the company position it well to lead the charge in decentralized finance and drive innovation within the web 3.0 space, making tits future a one of excitement.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Create a new future: Create your own path while changing the world
- Token Equity Package: Be part of your company's success
- Flexible PTO: Take time to rest, so you can come back fully recharged
- Work from anywhere: work isn't bound to a centralized location, wneither are we
- Cool NY office: Option to work with the team in-person or pop in to see us
- Generous parental leave: Inclusive paid parental leave for all new parents
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Eric Chen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also a Venture Partner with Innovating Capital and and Investor with Vessel Capital.
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