Senior Core Systems Engineer

About This Role

Join a stellar team to design, build, and scale core systems at the heart of our blockchain platform, focusing on MPC, HSMs, and TEEs. This high-impact role involves building reliable distributed services and integrating them with cloud, hardware, and blockchain environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate MPC signers, HSMs, and TEEs (e.g. AWS Nitro)
• Build low-level services and middleware in Rust and other systems languages
• Architect distributed databases and stateful services for performance and reliability
• Develop secure APIs and networking between core systems and high-level services
• Optimize resource usage, latency, and throughput across critical workflows
• Collaborate with cryptography, infra, and product to bring new protocols into production
• Document core systems, share knowledge, and support client and partner discussions

Requirements

• 8+ years of systems engineering experience with focus on security, infra, or backend
• Deep expertise in Rust, with strong low-level systems programming skills
• Proven experience building distributed systems, consensus mechanisms, or networks
• Hands-on experience with HSMs, MPC, TEEs, and cryptographic key management
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases in high-availability environments
• Familiarity with secure networking, applied cryptography, and defense-in-depth models
• Skilled in observability, debugging, and optimizing performance at scale
• Clear communicator, able to translate complex systems into practical solutions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of systems engineering experience with focus on security, infra, or backend

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits