Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure

At Anchorage Digital, we are working on building a cutting-edge digital asset platform tailored for institutional participation in the crypto space.

We are a pioneering crypto platform that facilitates institutional involvement in digital assets across custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and top-notch security infrastructure. Our establishment includes Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the sole federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S. As trusted by leading institutions like Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, our Series D valuation exceeds $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has spread across offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

As a Member of Technical Staff within the Infra Engineering team, your role involves contributing to various aspects of the platform focusing on cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, GKE, Terraform) and constructing systems for our monorepo. You will play a vital part in defining long-term strategies and collaborating with a skilled team of engineers to implement them successfully. Ensuring a smooth build pipeline for internal developers and maintaining a reliable, secure runtime infrastructure are key components of your responsibilities contributing to Anchorage's core ecosystem and value proposition. The role presents opportunities for diverse and challenging work and enables professional growth through cross-team exposure.

We have laid out the Factors of Growth & Impact to assist team members in better assessing their impact, articulating feedback, and exploring the rewarding learning journey embedded in understanding, developing, and mastering capabilities outside the scope of the Infrastructure Engineer role.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Skills:

• Lead significant infrastructure initiatives like developing abstractions for Kubernetes and Istio.

• Administer reliable and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.

• Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Lead the effort to transition from monolithic to microservices architecture including decomposing Terraform and Kubernetes configurations.

• Develop or adopt deployment tools to automate deployment processes.

• Enhance the build system to reduce developer feedback cycles.

• Establish robust local and remote test infrastructure to improve developer productivity.

• Organizational Knowledge:

• Nurture a culture of collaboration.

• Ensuring timely project delivery.

• Communication and Influence:

• Work collaboratively with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to provide secure cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Advocate best practices related to cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and observability.

Job Qualifications:

• Proficient in programming with a passion for Linux and automation.
• Experience with major cloud providers like GCP and/or AWS and technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Familiarity with Build toolchains such as Bazel and Gradle.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to ChromeOS is a plus.
• Understanding of cryptography over cryptocurrency.
• Keen interest in blockchain protocol research and innovations in crypto assets.
• Background in the finance industry is a bonus.

Technical Stack:

• Backend Tech: Go, C, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, C++, GraphQL.
• Engineering Methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographic data linking, tamper-resistant ledgers, air-gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, container orchestration, repeatable builds, infra-as-code.

About Anchorage Digital:

The Anchorage Village assembles top talent from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology sectors to provide the foundational structure empowering institutions to engage securely in the evolving digital asset domain. Comprising a diverse team of over 300, we are united by the singular aim of shaping the future of finance by laying the groundwork for safe value transfer in the emerging global economy.

Anchorage Digital is firmly committed to fostering a workplace that is inclusive and welcoming to everyone, ensuring that all individuals feel respected, supported, and connected, irrespective of their backgrounds. We value and embrace diversity, recognizing that openness about individual identities enables us to produce our finest work.

Anchorage Digital is an equal opportunity employer that upholds employment equality regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. Anchorage Digital assesses qualified candidates impartially, irrespective of any past criminal records, to comply with legal requirements. "Anchorage Digital" denotes services offered via Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, Anchorage Lending CA, LLC, and Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd—all wholly owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Protecting the privacy rights of individuals is a pivotal focus for Anchorage Digital, ensuring the maintenance of client trust and confidence when handling personal or financial data.