Member of Technical Staff, Anchorage Digital
Infrastructure
Regulated crypto platform
Open for applications
Regulated crypto platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.
Role
Who you are
- Strong programming skills and love Linux and automation
- Have experience with one of the major cloud providers (ideally GCP and/or AWS) and Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform etc
- Have experience with Build toolchains such as Bazel, Gradle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Desirable
- You have experience with ChromeOS
- In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
- You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of crypto asset innovations
- You have a background in the finance industry
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
What the job involves
- As a Member of Technical Staff at the Infra Engineering team, you'll get the opportunity to work on various platform areas such as cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, gke, terraform), and build systems for our monorepo
- You’ll help define the long-term strategy and execute it with a team of talented engineers
- Internal developers will appreciate a well functioning build pipeline that allows them to get their code to production smoothly
- The business and Anchorage customers will appreciate a reliable, secure runtime infrastructure as that is a core competency of the Anchorage ecosystem and value proposition
- The role has cross-team exposure which allows for interesting work and professional growth
- We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Infrastructure Engineer role
- Define and influence large infrastructure initiatives such as creating the abstraction for Kubernetes and istio
- Operate reliable and cost efficient cloud infrastructure
- Lead the initiative to migrate from monolith to microservice architecture such as decomposing Terraform and Kubernetes configurations
- Build or adopt deployment tools to automate the deployment process
- Improve the build system to shorten developer feedback loop
- Build robust local and remote test infrastructure to enhance developer productivity
- Collaborate
- Deliver
- Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver secure cloud infrastructure solutions
- Advocate the best practice across cloud infrastructure, developer experience and observability
- Backend Tech: Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, C++ and GraphQL
- Engineering Methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, container orchestration, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code
Our take
Anchorage is a crypto-native digital asset platform offering a raft of solutions that help companies leverage blockchain technologies. Their advanced security architecture facilitates streamlined access to the complex and fragmented digital asset space.
Financial backing for Anchorage has come from prestigious investors Visa and Andreessen Horowitz. Anchorage's broad offerings are set to be matched by plans to partner across a wide spread of neobanks, challenger & incumbent banks, and corporate treasurers. This would mean an impressive expansion of their already substantial domain of influence in a rapidly developing sector.
In early 2021, Anchorage secured a national trust charter from the OCC, making it the first-ever federally chartered digital asset bank. This is significant, as it provides a good barrier to entry for other companies looking to compete in this space, and gives legacy institutions the ability to offer digital asset access to their clients. Though it has raised considerable funding in the past, crypto instability and wider macroeconomic challenges forced Anchorage to cut 20% of its staff in March 2023. 2022 clampdowns on customer due dilligence internal controllers added to the pressure on Anchorage to streamline and refocus its efforts.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2021
$350m
SERIES D
Feb 2021
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $487m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
- Family comes first: we offer parental and child bonding leave to all new parents
- Meaningful equity - Every team member is a part owner in the company and community that we’re all building together
- We allow employees to work anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal, and have physical workspaces in New York, San Francisco, South Dakota, and Portugal
- Flexible time-off plan - Take time off, guilt-free, so you can recharge when you need to
- 401(k) plan & FSA account
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Diogo Mónica
(Executive Chairman)Former advisor and board member at Jscrambler and advisor at StackRox with Phd in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Tecnico.
Nathan McCauley
(CEO)Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.
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