Platform Engineer Core Systems
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You will own the bare-metal platform and the Rust libraries that standardize logging, metrics, tracing, secrets, and configuration. You will provision, configure, secure, deploy, and observe multi-region infrastructure; operate validators; build safe key-access controls; improve deployment reliability; and resolve production incidents.
Responsibilities
- Own internal Rust libraries for logging, metrics, tracing, secret access, credential access, and configuration
- Build policy-enforcement proxies for signing and key access
- Own provisioning, configuration, secrets, delivery, observability, and on-call operations
- Make host configuration reproducible across a multi-region bare-metal fleet
- Build deployment tooling that updates production without dropping transactions or missing slots
- Operate Solana validators and supporting infrastructure
- Run and extend metrics, logging, and alerting systems
- Investigate incidents, fix root causes, and prevent recurring problems
Requirements
- Proficiency in Rust and designing crate APIs
- Experience building adopted internal libraries or platform APIs
- Deep Linux and networking fundamentals
- Production bare-metal operations experience across regions and providers
- Infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management experience
- Experience with secret management, PKI, certificate lifecycles, and credential rotation
- Deep familiarity with Solana or the ability to build protocol fluency quickly
- Ability to own, investigate, ship, and operate solutions for underspecified production problems
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health insurance
- 100% employer-paid dental insurance
- 100% employer-paid vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Technology stipend
- 401(k)
- Annual discretionary bonus, which may include stock options
- Equity eligibility
- Performance-based upside