Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Ellipsis Labs

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New York, New York Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 20, 2025 Last posted March 20, 2025
Job description

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.

The Opportunity

Ellipsis Labs is seeking our first full-time Infrastructure engineer to join the team. (We've had a part-time advisor and helper on this so far!) The ideal candidate would consider themselves an infrastructure or systems generalist, excited to tackle sensitive and high-performance financial technology that needs 5+ 9's of reliability.

In this role, you will:

  • Set foundational infrastructure best practices and architecture

  • Develop and own the team's DevOps processes

  • Ensure the security and monitoring of critical production systems

Qualifications

Required

  • 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (ideally in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code

  • 3+ years of experience with Unix systems and DevOps

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

  • A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

  • Passion for decentralized finance

Preferred

  • Experience working with blockchain technology, preferably Solana

  • Experience in quant trading or fintech

Compensation (from employer):
$200K – $250K • Offers Equity

About this role

Summary

Build and maintain high-reliability financial infrastructure, ensure security, develop DevOps processes, and set best practices.

Job title

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Experience level

3+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

New York, New York, on-site or hybrid work allowed

Salary

$200K – $250K

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

rustc++unixdevopscloud infrastructure

Preferred skills

blockchainsolanafintechAWS

Specializations

decentralized financeblockchaincloud infrastructurefintech
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid City