Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating the majority of spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2024 Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $13 billion in customer TVL.

Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 60 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.

Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain, and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st century financial innovation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems for data from DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and various other data sources
• Contribute to making our platform world-class
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their system requirements and provide the necessary support to help their productivity.
• Implement quality control measures to ensure system integrity and quality
• Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards
• Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of the platform
• Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional development experience. More is better, but we’re flexible.
• Experience developing production quality software in Python, Rust, Go or other high-performance languages
• Experience with distributed computation frameworks and related technologies such as Dagster, Kubeflow, Spark, TensorFlow, Flink, etc.
• Experience with building backend systems.
• Ability to quickly internalize abstract concepts in new domains, coupled with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and within a team, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment
• Passion for DeFi and the broader crypto ecosystem, with a willingness to immerse oneself in the space.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in the crypto industry is a big plus but not required.
• Enthusiasm for the space, especially DeFi, is very much desired.
• Background in smart contract development (e.g., Solidity) or contributions to the DeFi community through research or open-source projects.

Benefits and Perks

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
• Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive based compensation
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country “office visit” perk
• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
• Laptop, monitor, keyboard and mouse setup provided
• $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
• $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
• Fertility benefits

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain is at the forefront of blockchain innovation, developing cutting-edge solutions for secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchain networks. Our mission is to revolutionize the way blockchain ecosystems interact and operate, creating a more connected and efficient decentralized world. Access all of crypto in one place, as a developer or user.

ZetaChain prides itself on its vibrant and active community:

• Thriving Ecosystem: 1000+ dApps developed between testnet and mainnet
• Engagement: Over a million community members
• Live on Mainnet: Partnered with all major exchanges
• Activity: Network has over 3M unique addresses
• Well Funded: Raised over $27M

Find out more about our ecosystem.

Learn more about our company culture.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Senior Blockchain Security Engineer to join our Security team and play a crucial role in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security risks within our blockchain ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, deep technical knowledge of blockchain technologies, and extensive experience in cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Build & implement security automation tools for fuzzing, static code analysis, attack detection, etc
• Lead security initiatives and mentor team members in blockchain security best practices
• Collaborate with the development team to identify high risk code changes and participate in code reviews
• Develop and implement innovative security testing methodologies specific to blockchain and DeFi environments
• Analyze new and emerging attack vectors in the Web3 space and assess their potential impact on ZetaChain
• Lead and participate in security audits or penetration testing exercises and drive the remediation of findings
• Contribute to and help manage the company’s bug bounty program by validating and triaging reported vulnerabilities
• Assist in developing security guidelines and documentation for the ZetaChain ecosystem

Requirements

• Location:
  • Hybrid in San Francisco or NYC is preferred (1-2 days a week)
  • Open to Remote for exceptional candidates in US or CET Timezones
• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on blockchain and Web3 technologies
• 2+ years of software development experience working with Go
• 2+ years of software development experience working with smart contracts (Ideally Solidity)
• Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals, smart contract vulnerabilities, and DeFi-specific security risks
• Experience with security tools and techniques specific to blockchain environments
• Deep familiarity with common attack vectors in Web3, such as flash loan attacks, reentrancy, and oracle manipulation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the Cosmos SDK, Ethereum, and other major blockchain protocols
• Previous experience auditing Go and Solidity code
• Contributions to open-source blockchain security tools or research
• Advanced knowledge of cryptography and its applications in blockchain technology
• Active participation in bug bounty programs or capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions
• Experience implementing and managing automated security testing pipelines
• Familiarity with formal verification techniques for smart contracts
• Understanding of zero-knowledge proofs and their blockchain applications

Why Work at ZetaChain

• Remote Flexibility: Enjoy a flexible work environment with quarterly team meetups
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Work on innovative blockchain solutions at the forefront of the industry
• Impactful Role: Directly contribute to the security and reliability of a leading blockchain protocol
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the rapidly evolving blockchain and security landscape through conferences, workshops, and training opportunities
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside passionate professionals in blockchain and cybersecurity

How to Apply

If you’re excited about contributing to a revolutionary protocol, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume and a brief description of your relevant experience to email or reach out to us on Discord..

ZetaChain is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or disability status.

Diversity and Inclusion

At ZetaChain, we believe that diverse teams build better products. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and empowered to bring their full selves to work. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Conduit – The Onchain Compute Company

At Conduit, we’re building the rollup-native cloud platform that will scale Ethereum.

Crypto builders have been held back by a lack of onchain compute — without the ability to process a high volume of transactions quickly and cheaply, onchain apps and ecosystems can’t build high quality user experiences.

Rollups have emerged as the answer to this problem. Just as servers work together to scale compute in web2, so too can rollups scale onchain compute in web3. But building and operating your own rollup is difficult and time-consuming. That’s where Conduit comes in.

As the rollup-native cloud platform, Conduit combines web2 engineering best-practices with web3 rollup technology to make it easy for anyone to launch and maintain their own chain. By making infrastructure simple and onchain compute abundant, similar to how AWS and GCP did for web2, we can unlock the next wave of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

The Conduit platform has seen massive growth since going live in 2023. We run the largest chains in production, including Proof of Play, Zora, Aevo, and more. This translates to 200+ chains across mainnet and testnet and over $1B in total-value-locked (TVL). We’re operating on the bleeding edge of crypto, co-evolving with our customers and integration partners, and pushing the limits of blockchain scalability and modularity.

This success has been recognized and accelerated through a $37M Series A, co-led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures — two of the best investors in the industry.

We’re an elite team that’s previously worked at Meta, Brex, Wish, Compound, Chainalysis, Immunefi, Amazon, Avara/Aave, Paradigm, and more. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, with team members all over the world.

We’re looking for ambitious, talented builders that want to help scale Ethereum and bring crypto compute to the masses. Join us!

About the Role

In this role you’ll be working closely with the CEO to develop, maintain, and the rollup stack offerings and customizations made possible by our leading Rollup-as-a-Service platform. You’ll develop custom precompiles and whitelisted contract deployers that create entirely new or more efficient functionality, as well as help us expand our support for emerging L2s. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding, are able to quickly create proof-of-concepts to validate entirely new approaches, and enjoy being self-directed and identifying the most important problems to solve.

As a Software Engineer, Rollup Product you should:

• A strong background in distributed systems, cryptography, and network protocols.
• Have some experience hacking on the various rollups, understand the underlying components, and have opinions about the various trade-offs of those components and platforms.
• Have some experience with hacking on EVM node software.
• Have a deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it.
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Golang, Rust, and Solidity.
• Contribute to defining Conduit’s product strategy and roadmap with the rest of the team.

We think you’ll find this work really exciting if you:

• Love rollups and their potential to exponentially scale Ethereum, and are excited about building best-in-class tooling and infrastructure for it and around it.
• You’re excited to architect, build, and deploy the systems, services, and integrations that help our rollups connect with other ecosystem partners.
• Have experience tinkering with optimistic and ZK rollups and deploying applications to the various chains.
• Can debug problems across the stack, such as networking issues, performance problems, or memory leaks
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done

Our tech stack

Our infrastructure is built on Kubernetes, Postgres, and Cloud Tasks on GCP, and the products on top utilize a mix of React, Javascript/Typescript, Go, Rust, and Postgres. While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.

Conduit does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

Conduit – The Onchain Compute Company

At Conduit, we’re building the rollup-native cloud platform that will scale Ethereum.

Crypto builders have been held back by a lack of onchain compute — without the ability to process a high volume of transactions quickly and cheaply, onchain apps and ecosystems can’t build high quality user experiences.

Rollups have emerged as the answer to this problem. Just as servers work together to scale compute in web2, so too can rollups scale onchain compute in web3. But building and operating your own rollup is difficult and time-consuming. That’s where Conduit comes in.

As the rollup-native cloud platform, Conduit combines web2 engineering best-practices with web3 rollup technology to make it easy for anyone to launch and maintain their own chain. By making infrastructure simple and onchain compute abundant, similar to how AWS and GCP did for web2, we can unlock the next wave of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

The Conduit platform has seen massive growth since going live in 2023. We run the largest chains in production, including Proof of Play, Zora, Aevo, and more. This translates to 200+ chains across mainnet and testnet and over $1B in total-value-locked (TVL). We’re operating on the bleeding edge of crypto, co-evolving with our customers and integration partners, and pushing the limits of blockchain scalability and modularity.

This success has been recognized and accelerated through a $37M Series A, co-led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures — two of the best investors in the industry.

We’re an elite team that’s previously worked at Meta, Brex, Wish, Compound, Chainalysis, Immunefi, Amazon, Avara/Aave, Paradigm, and more. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, with team members all over the world.

We’re looking for ambitious, talented builders that want to help scale Ethereum and bring crypto compute to the masses. Join us!

About the Role

Conduit’s backend team builds the systems that power the Conduit Platform. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling out the next-generation of services for the  Conduit Platform.

In this role you’ll be working on building out scalable, efficient, and performant distributed software solutions for the Conduit Platform. This is a mixture of extending and improving open-source software as well as developing in-house solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and evolve the core Conduit Platform
• Deliver scalable and robust software solutions in a devops environment
• Create and improve tooling and process to improve maintainability and reliability
• Participate in oncall rotation

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building and supporting production systems
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and security best practices
• Experience distilling customer, product, and business requirements into scalable solutions
• Experience debugging complex issues across the stack, such as networking issues, performance problems, or memory leaks
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers to solve complex technical problems (mentoring, peer-reviews, design reviews, etc.).

We think you’ll find this work really exciting if you:

• Are excited about building robust public-facing, large-scale, always-on services
• Love building and iterating on new technologies in a fast-paced environment

Our tech stack

A flavor of technologies in-use:

• Languages: Golang, python, rust
• Databases: Postgres, redis, GCS

While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.

Conduit does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

Conduit – The Onchain Compute Company

At Conduit, we’re building the rollup-native cloud platform that will scale Ethereum.

Crypto builders have been held back by a lack of onchain compute — without the ability to process a high volume of transactions quickly and cheaply, onchain apps and ecosystems can’t build high quality user experiences.

Rollups have emerged as the answer to this problem. Just as servers work together to scale compute in web2, so too can rollups scale onchain compute in web3. But building and operating your own rollup is difficult and time-consuming. That’s where Conduit comes in.

As the rollup-native cloud platform, Conduit combines web2 engineering best-practices with web3 rollup technology to make it easy for anyone to launch and maintain their own chain. By making infrastructure simple and onchain compute abundant, similar to how AWS and GCP did for web2, we can unlock the next wave of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

The Conduit platform has seen massive growth since going live in 2023. We run the largest chains in production, including Proof of Play, Zora, Aevo, and more. This translates to 200+ chains across mainnet and testnet and over $1B in total-value-locked (TVL). We’re operating on the bleeding edge of crypto, co-evolving with our customers and integration partners, and pushing the limits of blockchain scalability and modularity.

This success has been recognized and accelerated through a $37M Series A, co-led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures — two of the best investors in the industry.

We’re an elite team that’s previously worked at Meta, Brex, Wish, Compound, Chainalysis, Immunefi, Amazon, Avara/Aave, Paradigm, and more. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, with team members all over the world.

We’re looking for ambitious, talented builders that want to help scale Ethereum and bring crypto compute to the masses. Join us!

About the Role

In this role you’ll be working closely with the CEO to develop, maintain, and the rollup stack offerings and customizations made possible by our leading Rollup-as-a-Service platform. You’ll develop custom precompiles and whitelisted contract deployers that create entirely new or more efficient functionality, as well as help us expand our support for emerging L2s. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding, are able to quickly create proof-of-concepts to validate entirely new approaches, and enjoy being self-directed and identifying the most important problems to solve.

As a Software Engineer, Rollup Product you should:

• A strong background in distributed systems, cryptography, and network protocols.
• Have some experience hacking on the various rollups, understand the underlying components, and have opinions about the various trade-offs of those components and platforms.
• Have some experience with hacking on EVM node software.
• Have a deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it.
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Golang, Rust, and Solidity.
• Contribute to defining Conduit’s product strategy and roadmap with the rest of the team.

We think you’ll find this work really exciting if you:

• Love rollups and their potential to exponentially scale Ethereum, and are excited about building best-in-class tooling and infrastructure for it and around it.
• You’re excited to architect, build, and deploy the systems, services, and integrations that help our rollups connect with other ecosystem partners.
• Have experience tinkering with optimistic and ZK rollups and deploying applications to the various chains.
• Can debug problems across the stack, such as networking issues, performance problems, or memory leaks
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done

Our tech stack

Our infrastructure is built on Kubernetes, Postgres, and Cloud Tasks on GCP, and the products on top utilize a mix of React, Javascript/Typescript, Go, Rust, and Postgres. While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.

Conduit does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.