Staff Software Engineer (SRE)

Why Work With Us

Phantom's journey to becoming a global trading app began with making crypto easier to use. Today, we’re building on that foundation to help people discover the markets that matter, make informed financial moves, and safely store or spend their money worldwide. Joining Phantom means helping shape that next chapter: building products that bring the freedom of open markets to more people.

• Build for global impact: Create products used by tens of millions of people, making innovative financial markets more accessible to users around the world.
• Make complexity feel simple: Solve meaningful challenges across design, engineering, and user experience to make discovering markets and managing money seamless.
• Put users in control: Help build a future where people have greater freedom over their assets and financial decisions, with security and self-custody at the foundation.
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Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Ownership: Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
• Infrastructure Automation: Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi) to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Blockchain Infrastructure: Configure and maintain crypto nodes across multiple blockchains to support our wallet’s operations.
• Database Scaling: Optimize and scale database infrastructure to handle terabytes of blockchain data efficiently.
• System Reliability: Continuously improve system uptime, monitoring, and observability using tools like Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
• Collaboration: Work closely with backend and product teams to support feature development and system scaling.
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Qualifications

• 8+ years in a SRE or Software Engineer role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments.
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM).
• Solid experience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Monitoring and observability experience using tools like Datadog or OpenTelemetry.

The target base salary for this role will range between $200,000 to $250,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.