Senior Software Engineer - Go & Rust, Blockchain Infrastructure
Summary
Senior engineer at QuickNode designing, building, and operating high-throughput blockchain infrastructure in Go and Rust. Day to day: owning distributed systems from architecture through production, improving reliability, performance, and security, debugging production failures, and mentoring engineers.
You will design, build, optimize, and operate high-throughput blockchain infrastructure in Go and Rust. You will own distributed systems from architecture through production, improve reliability, performance, security, and observability, resolve complex failures, and lead technical reviews and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize high-throughput backend services, APIs, and data-processing systems in Go and Rust
- Own the architecture, testing, observability, deployment, and operation of Go services and Rust components
- Architect distributed systems for ingesting, processing, validating, and serving blockchain data
- Own technical work from requirements through incident response and continuous improvement
- Profile and benchmark production systems to improve performance, resilience, and correctness
- Assess security risks and design or review controls for transactions, data, credentials, and system integrity
- Debug cross-system production failures and drive root-cause fixes
- Translate customer and protocol requirements into maintainable systems
- Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Advanced professional proficiency in Go and Rust
- Knowledge of distributed systems, algorithms, data structures, concurrency, memory safety, databases, networking, operating systems, and software architecture
- Experience delivering reliable and scalable production systems
- Experience with blockchain infrastructure, high-throughput APIs, node or RPC infrastructure, data-streaming pipelines, or distributed platforms
- Experience with secure design, threat modeling, and testing
- Written and verbal communication
- Technical leadership
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus