Job description
About Phylax
We want to solve security so that crypto can win. We have started Phylax Systems, a company designed to safeguard crypto, and have raised over $4.5M from world-class investors like Nascent, Figment Capital, RobotVC, and others.
Phylax started in the aftermath of the Nomad hack. We spoke with affected users, DeFi founders, and engineers, uncovering a frightening reality: many can’t sleep for fear of being hacked, and some have even left the space altogether. Our entire industry’s credibility has suffered from these daylight robberies, with billions of dollars lost in hacks.
This experience marked the true beginning of Phylax, and our team is on a mission to make top-tier crypto security absolute and accessible. We believe hack prevention must be proactive and impossible to circumvent.
We are building the Credible Layer, a step-level improvement for on-chain security, by creating an on-chain protocol and off-chain infrastructure that enables protocols to enforce security rules for every transaction that interacts with them. On top of that, we deeply believe that open-security is net-possitive for the space, building a whole platform so that end-users coalesce on the Credible Layer as the focal point for the security of every ecosystem.
We are a team that deeply cares about the space and believes the technology and practices are here to help the industry become trustworthy for everyday people and institutions alike.
We have been collaborating with the developer community and industry for the last years and are excited about making long-lasting contributions together.
The Role
As a Platform Engineer at Phylax Systems, you will work on bleeding-edge infrastructure that will safeguard the crypto industry. You will play a crucial role in enabling our team to rapidly ship new features and keep up with our vision of making crypto safe and credible.
We believe in fast iterations and feedback loops, translating to short software release cycles and constantly changing our infrastructure. We value continuous performance benchmarking and testing for correctness and thus strive to keep our code lean, performant, and robust.
We’re looking for engineers who can support us with shipping robust code, shipping performant code, and shipping more code, faster. By joining our team, we offer an exciting opportunity for you to contribute to core open-source crypto infrastructure and the ability to work on cutting-edge features.
Key Responsibilities
Be the key person who drives and executes our team’s infrastructure.
Ability to design, drive, and own complex features throughout the whole lifecycle and handle input from various internal stakeholders.
Comfortable working independently, handling ambiguity, and managing undefined requirements.
Share innovative ideas to contribute to the team roadmap and consistently raise the bar for others with impactful contributions.
Comfortable working within fast iteration cycles, continuously optimizing through testing, benchmarking, and feedback from other peers.
What we’re looking for
Proven experience in maintaining and scaling both bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems.
Skilled in monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure (Grafana-Prometheus-Loki-Tempo, Groundcover, etc.), with the ability to assist team members with troubleshooting.
Proficient in coding or scripting languages such as Rust, Go, or Python.
Capable of developing custom tools and contributing to open-source projects.
Hands-on experience with orchestration tools, e.g., Kubernetes, and configuration management tools, e.g., Pulumi, Terraform, Helm,
Strong Linux and networking skills and experience with troubleshooting on Linux systems.
Background in securing and hardening infrastructure (uptime, self-healing, security requirements).
Nice to Have
Prior Rust experience is beneficial but not required for Platform Engineers.
Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure, ideally Ethereum / OP-stack, is a plus.
Why join us
Be part of the Phylax Founding team.
Work on one of the most challenging topics in web3.
Be the owner of your project and build it from the ground up.
Deeply impactful work for the entire industry.
You’ll join a team that appreciates and embraces shitposting.
What we offer
Flexible PTO
Health Insurance
Major industry conferences and events covered
Remote-first, with a hub in NYC
New MacBook
We accept applications for this role until June 19, 2025
