Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Talos Trading
Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
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Institutional digital asset trading infrastructure
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the bridge connecting institutions to the digital assets market, and to deliver the most pioneering and trusted end-to-end trading lifecycle platform there is.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on with bare-metal datacenter design, planning, implementation, and support
- Strong background in Ubuntu Linux administration, with automation using IPMI, Ansible, and Terraform
- Solid understanding of IPv4/IPv6 networking, VPNs (Wireguard), DNS, and reverse proxies/load balancers (nginx, tinyproxy, APISIX), plus Cloudflare
- Skilled in Kubernetes cluster administration, including tools such as Cilium, Helm, ArgoCD, and Kyverno
- Experience with at least one of: Postgres HA/scale (80+ DBs per DC, largest >100TB), Kafka, Minio, or blockchain fullnodes
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana for monitoring and alerting
- Exposure to cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP)
- Practical experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and build environments
- Ability to configure and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines and build runners
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using bash, Python, and Docker
What the job involves
- At Talos, our Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for the hardware and software systems that underpin the secure, efficient, and reliable operation of our products. We run a bare-metal, global infrastructure footprint with datacenters in Paris, NYC, and Dallas, and partner closely with engineering teams to keep our environments performant, scalable, and resilient
- This is a hands-on role covering datacenter operations, Linux systems, Kubernetes clusters, networking, and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll have the opportunity to work across the full stack, from low-level infrastructure to developer tooling, and play a critical role in ensuring our products and engineering teams run at scale
- You’ll join a small, highly skilled team with significant responsibility and autonomy, working in an environment where infrastructure excellence directly impacts our clients and product teams
- Infrastructure operations: Build, maintain, and troubleshoot global bare-metal infrastructure (50+ servers per datacenter)
- Datacenter support: Collaborate with vendors to manage system stability, tune performance, troubleshoot problems and upgrade capacity
- Kubernetes administration: Manage cluster upgrades, patching, testing, and security hardening
- Monitoring & incident response: Operate and improve monitoring/alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki; provide rapid incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation
- CI/CD support: Manage GitLab pipelines, build runners, and related services; step in during incidents impacting developer productivity
- Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams on capacity planning, scaling projects, and infrastructure tooling
- Automation: Use infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform, bash, Python, Docker) to standardize and automate system management
- Continuous improvement: Identify gaps and opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and tooling
- Coverage: Provide infrastructure support during EU hours, contributing to 24/7 team capacity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
So far, the increasing institutional interest in the value of crypto-assets has been stymied by a lack of scaled, efficient, and secure infrastructure that these institutions could use for trade. Talos addresses the problem of digital asset trading between institutions, helping them to securely sidestep these obstacles into a fresh market with potentially huge returns.
The company provides a range of end-to-end, highly configurable tools to populate and facilitate the institutional crypto-asset market from just one platform. Talos' approach is helping to lower the bar for wide-ranging adoption of cryptocurrency, supporting the full lifespan of digital assets trading. That said, because they’re developing the market of an entirely new asset-class, progress is accelerated and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors like PayPal and Fidelity during their Series A funding round, with the funds being used to create an institutional-grade service to help them both shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has made a number of significant partnerships, and also acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will allow its clients to design, validate, implement and manage highly customized portfolios.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
May 2021
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $151m
Company benefits
- Pension
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Remote and flexible working
- Global offsites and team outings
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Anton Katz
(CEO & Co-Founder)Having served in the Israeli Defense Forces for 3 years, Anton worked at Microsoft in Program Management for almost 2 years and Broadway Technology for a further 6. In September 2018, he left his role as Head of Trading Technology at AQR Capital Management to co-found Talos Trading.
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