Software Engineer, EVM SVM Infrastructure - Informal Staking
Full Time
Remote
Informal Systems
Informal Systems was founded with a mission to foster trust in software and monetary systems. Before founding Informal, our team spent years building state-of-the-art distributed systems and grappling with the complexities and limitations of such development. Despite securing billions of dollars in real-world value, these systems were still fundamentally flawed—complex and error-prone. We believed we could do better and create an environment where people could fully trust the systems they build and depend on. This vision led to the creation of Informal, a company specializing in the security of interoperable, fault-tolerant networks.
We believe that trust between people and protocols can thrive when backed by the right tools and systems. Informal assembled a team of world-class experts in protocol design, formal verification, and Rust. Today, we help other teams instill trust in their software and systems by applying the same rigorous standards we hold ourselves to.
At Informal, we’ve built our company on the same principles of sustainability, security, and correctness that define our work. To ensure these values shape our organization, we structured Informal as a workers' cooperative. With a "one member, one vote" model, everyone has an equal say, ensuring that no single group or individual controls the company.
Informal Staking
Our mission at Informal Staking (a division of Informal Systems) is to be a premier operator of decentralized network systems as we usher in a new age of open financial technologies.
To that end, we are a leading operator of staking nodes and interchain infrastructure services operating on many of the leading Web3 projects and contributing to the most anticipated up-and-coming networks. We’ve been validating the Cosmos Hub since genesis, and we’ve been running IBC relayers as long as they’ve existed. We run on bare-metal servers and cloud in 6 continents and have a strong commitment to security and best practices. We have a unique view into blockchain technology, many networks, and the communications between them. We are now actively expanding our service offerings into the larger blockchain ecosystem.
As a Senior Software Engineer, blockchain Infrastructure for Informal Staking, you will be responsible for our core staking and service offerings on Ethereum, Solana and emerging projects. You will carry the vision, build tools, architect solutions, and design systems to grow our services and keep them running smoothly and securely.
Informal Systems is a remote-first company with offices in Toronto, Lausanne, Vienna and Berlin. We are structured like a worker’s cooperative, where important corporate actions are subject to one-person-one-vote democratic control by the member-employees.
It will be your responsibility to:
- Build, maintain, and grow our core staking operations and other services, including infrastructure and smart contract components
- Architect, operate and maintain our infrastructure and container orchestration using Terraform, Ansible, and the Hashicorp software stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault)
- Build and maintain effective monitoring solutions, response playbooks, and automation strategies
- Lead efforts to scale our infrastructure to thousands of nodes and millions of users
- Be part of an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact our service offerings. Approximately 1-week per month on average and includes weekends.
- Lead efforts to prevent incidents from happening, and to reduce their impact and time to recovery
What we look for in a successful Senior Software Engineer, Ethereum Infrastructure:
- 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering and/or Software Engineering
- 2+ years experience in Ethereum ecosystem with deep understanding of Ethereum software (nodes), applications (solidity), and protocols (proof of stake)
- Drive, passion, and willingness to take initiative, lead projects, and work collaboratively with a remote team
- Ability to think creatively and develop solutions using sound engineering principles, operational discipline, mature automation, and best practices
- Ability to solve complex problems with the simple solutions that cater to circumstances and clients needs
- Experience with the orchestration and containerization software stacks such as Kubernetes and Hashicorp
- Experience with observability tools such as Zabbix, Grafana, etc.
- Experience with AWS services and networking or other cloud platforms like GCP / Azure
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Go and Rust
- A good team player, with the ability to work individually as well as collaborate across various teams in the organization
Our benefits include:
- A unique, caring and friendly culture (learn more about how we work here)
- Be part of an exciting new type of organization built on Cooperative principles (learn more here)
- 25 working days of paid vacation annually, plus unlimited Sick leave and 3 Spiritual days
- Company-wide closure from December 25th to January 1, annually
- Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, yoga classes, etc)
- Annual travel budget for educational and career-advancement opportunities
- A remote-first, flexible work environment with global Hub offices to visit
- A home-office stipend to set you up for success
- Annual company retreats
- Paid parental leave
- ….. and many more!
