Senior Backend Engineer Exchange Infrastructure

Own critical paths in the CLOB engine, optimize matching and orderbook performance, reduce contention, improve observability and rollback guarantees, reason about on-chain and off-chain settlement state, and lead production incident resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own the CLOB engine's critical path
• Profile matching and orderbook hot paths
• Improve latency, throughput, and asynchronous engine flow
• Reduce lock contention while preserving correctness
• Design safer queueing and backpressure for orderbooks
• Instrument systems with pprof, metrics, logs, and traces
• Establish rollback guarantees and narrower critical paths
• Design systems to handle settlement edge cases correctly
• Reduce garbage collection pressure and optimize CPU and memory allocation
• Debug and resolve production incidents involving latency, correctness, and settlement state

Requirements

• Senior-level backend or systems engineering experience
• Production ownership of an exchange system or high-throughput trading backend with on-chain settlement
• Experience with matching engines, order routing, or market data infrastructure
• Deep Go expertise, including garbage collection tuning, hot path optimization, and runtime internals
• Strong concurrency skills involving lock contention, race conditions, asynchronous correctness, and backpressure
• Production profiling experience with pprof, flamegraphs, and metrics
• EVM or blockchain transaction lifecycle experience, including confirmations, reorgs, and on-chain state
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and systems thinking
• Rust experience
• Redis, PostgreSQL, gRPC, and Protobuf experience
• Kubernetes and AWS production operations experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full health coverage
• Full vision coverage
• Full dental coverage
• 401k match
• New MacBook Pro
• Display and accessories