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Overview
Aptos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build critical infrastructure for the Aptos blockchain ecosystem, impacting thousands of developers. Join a lean team in Palo Alto or New York. Aptos is a people-first blockchain on a mission to help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way. Founded by some of the original creators and maintainers that researched, designed, and built the Diem blockchain to serve this purpose, we have dedicated several years toward this mission. We believe the open-source Diem technology we have developed is an important foundation of a safe and scalable web3 world where everyone has more equitable opportunities to grow and access financial assets with lower fees and fewer intermediaries. Aptos (Ohlone for "The People") encompasses our mission and ethos for why we build.
What you'll be doing
- •Leading initiatives to design, build, and optimize backend services and platform infrastructure for the Aptos blockchain
- •Developing scalable APIs, indexing services, and data pipelines to support blockchain data access
- •Building and maintaining infrastructure for node operations, monitoring, and observability
- •Building and maintaining SDKs, libraries, and developer tools
- •Writing clean, performant, well-tested, and production-ready code
- •Collaborating closely with protocol engineers, infrastructure teams, and product engineers
Our Benefits
- •100% insurance premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents (US Employees)
- •Equipment of your choice
- •Flexible vacation time, 11 holidays, and floating company days off
- •Competitive Salary
- •Protocol Token Grants
- •401k matching (US Employees)
- •Fun and inclusive in-person and digital events
What you bring
- •5+ years of experience building and shipping scalable backend systems
- •Strong experience building backend systems in languages such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Python, or similar
- •Deep understanding of systems programming concepts
- •Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and API design
- •Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- •Experience with blockchain infrastructure, indexing, or node operations (a plus)
- •Web3 experience or familiarity (a plus)
- •Background in payments, DeFi, or TradFi (a plus)
- •Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality