Remote Senior Software Engineer - Trading Infrastructure

About the Role

Join Gauntlet as a Remote Senior Software Engineer specializing in trading infrastructure. In this role, you will contribute to building institutional-grade vaults that deliver risk-adjusted DeFi yields at scale. As a leader in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics, Gauntlet manages over $2B in vault TVL and optimizes risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. You will work closely with a team of experts in tech and finance to develop the backbone of our high-performance derivatives trading strategies.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production.
• Build low-latency and streaming systems for real-time and near real-time workloads.
• Develop data pipelines and ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and serving data.
• Build and maintain application services and APIs used by internal and external systems.
• Implement Web3 protocol integrations, including smart contract interactions and on-chain data ingestion via RPCs, logs, and indexers.
• Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, observability, and operational correctness.
• Participate in incident response, debugging production issues, and driving root-cause fixes.
• Contribute to system design and code reviews, maintaining high engineering standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Web3 systems, including interacting with smart contracts and consuming on-chain data.
• Experience with streaming or messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Experience with data storage systems (e.g., Postgres, ClickHouse).
• Experience deploying and operating software in cloud environments (e.g., GCP).

Nice to Have

• Previous experience at financial or trading firms.
• Smart contract development experience (e.g., Solidity).
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Dagster).
• Experience operating systems with strict reliability or performance requirements.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code or CI/CD systems.

What We Offer

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
• Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation.
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.
• Laptop provided and a $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining.
• $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses.
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data.
• Unlimited vacation policy and 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks.
• Fertility benefits.