Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Paradigm
Liquidity for crypto derivative traders
Open for applications
Liquidity for crypto derivative traders
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere without compromises.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in site reliability engineering in a multi-datacenter production cloud environment with demanding up-time, real-time performance, and security requirements
- Experience adopting and employing open-source, home-grown, and commercial technology products as appropriate in support of the Infra Engineering mission
- Strong familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes
- Background in Software Engineering
- Experience with leading teams and projects
- Comfort working with senior management to allocate and prioritize engineering energy in support of the Infra Engineering mission in a real-world resource-constrained environment
Desirable
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking in a production context
- Experience building and/or using low-latency cross-region databases or high-volume trading applications
- Experience with HashiCorp tools (Vault, and Terraform)
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres
- Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Expertise in cloud network security
What the job involves
- At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance
- By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets
- As a core member of our infrastructure team, you will build and maintain major features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company
- You will spend the majority of your time on cross-functional self-contained feature teams focused on delivering value to the customer, while other projects will be more internally focused on integrations, scalability, and performance
- Own the site reliability process and systems from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance
- Educate the platform software engineering team on reliability best practices and collaborate to evolve the software engineering process to accommodate reliability principles
- Provide service outage escalation response alongside software engineers
- Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
- Manage and build core services and infrastructure across the entire engineering organization
- Help build an adaptable, high-velocity team
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist in resolving production incidents
Our take
For traders, finding liquidity that suits them, particularly when it comes to large or complex trades, is not often easy. The liquidity market is fragmented, leaving traders to source and process quotes manually and slowly. This is what Paradigm aims to change with its Liquidity Network - a one-stop shop for crypto derivatives traders seeking liquidity.
Essentially, Paradigm puts all your options in one place, and that simplicity means that traders generally get better-than-market prices too. It’s free-to-use and offers something that hasn’t really existed before.
It’s a specific market, but a wealthy one. And with over 600 institutions using the network, the average value traded monthly through Paradigm is about $10 billion. Its recent funding acquisition is being focused on expanding its network and enhancing its customers service output.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Jun 2018
$1.7m
SEED
Total funding: $36.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off: Take the time you need to recharge
- Full health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, flexible savings account
- 401k/Roth: Retirement savings account
- Technology allowance: $5000 first-year budget to spend on work tech
Company values
- Customer Centricity: We obsess over our customers. We work vigorously to deeply understand what their needs are and clearly define the problem we are solving for them
- Ownership: We are all owners. We lead by example and hold each other accountable to delivering on what we promise. We think long-term, set big goals, communicate clear direction and drive results within our teams and with our partners
- No Ego: Ego is the enemy of growth. We are committed to growing both personally and as a firm and aren’t afraid to accept and learn from our mistakes
- Be Impatient: Speed is a competitive advantage. We ship products incrementally and are committed to being first to market
- Hire and Recognize the Best: Every hire must raise the performance bar and improve the cultural identity of the firm. We recognize the best in people and give them the flexibility to move within the organization
- Fairness and Inclusivity: We build products and a culture that enables access and opportunity without discrimination
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Anand Gomes
(CEO)Previously VP of Oil & Gas HY Credit Strategy at KeyBanc Capital Markets, and Advisor at UC Berkley's Data X Lab.
Michal Koonin
(Chief of Staff)Former Senior Trader at Wolverine Trading.
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