Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Zora labs
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NFT auction marketplace
Open for applications
NFT auction marketplace
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Zora's mission is to build a new creator and community-owned economy.
Role
Who you are
- Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies, including servers, networks, storage, and monitoring
- Experience with cloud computing technologies such as GCP, AWS, k8s, argo-cd, helm, Terraform, kafka, bigquery, mongodb, IPFS
- Knowledge of languages such as Python, Golang, Rust and Bash
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to lead and mentor junior team members
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with a focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure solutions
- Understanding of blockchain infrastructure, such as ethereum mainnet, EVM, architecture of other l2 chains such as polygon, optimism, base chain
- Understanding of other l2 scaling solutions, such as optimistic rollup, zk rollup, plasma, side chains and bridges
- Intrinsic motivation to take the ownership of the product you build
- Enjoy building software product and coding
- Strong desire to learn and explore new technologies
What the job involves
- ZORA is looking for experienced senior infra engineers to work closely with the development team to ensure that the infrastructure meets the needs of the business and is scalable, including indexer service, API, data pipeline, machine learning models, and other blockchain-related project support
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions
- Provide blockchain related infra and architectural support for the protocol team such as GETH, RETH node operation and maintenance
- Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure systems, including network diagrams, system configurations, and standard operating procedures
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement best practices for infrastructure architecture and engineering
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and processes to improve the efficiency and reliability of the infrastructure
- Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify and resolve infrastructure issues in a timely manner
- Monitor infrastructure performance and capacity, and implement proactive measures to ensure high availability
- Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure business operations are maintained in the event of an outage
Our take
Zora is one of a number of companies leading the growth of pro-creator platforms in the Web3 space with its Ethereum-based NFT marketplace. The company was founded in 2020 as NFTs began to dominate headlines, and swiftly raised major funding as a potential competitor to the incumbent leader in this space, OpenSea.
Though its rival OpenSea is the undisputed leader in the NFT marketplace, a number of growing pains and controversies have led to a demand for more decentralized avenues.
Zora has moved swiftly to take advantage of the growing pains and controversies plaguing its rival, quickly gaining a customer base of individuals and companies looking for alternatives. One of Zora's major strengths is that the marketplace protocol that it creates is also used by a number of third-party sites. In essence, Zora is both a sales platform and a SaaS for other businesses.
While the future of NFTs is difficult to predict given the extreme volatility the sector has experienced since 2022, Zora looks well-positioned to thrive as long as the market does. That being said, it is branching out into the AI space, under the understanding that there is a crossover market between the aforementioned and crypto.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$50m
EARLY VC
Oct 2020
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $52m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time-off policy
- New Macbook Pro for full-time employees
- Company equity
- Remote work
Company values
- To win together
- To build together
- To collaborate to make this happen
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jacob Horne
(Co-founder)Involved in Crypto since 2015, while still studying. Joined Coinbase as a Product Designer out of university and became Product Manager, before co-founding Zora.
Slava Kim
(Co-founder)Served as a Lead Designer at online and mobile advertising company Rambler & Co, before joining Coinbase as a Product Designer.
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