Associate Protocol Engineer

## **Who We Are:** Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world – and we’re building the products and services to make that future a reality. Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S. We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI. Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. To learn more about our businesses and products, visit www.galaxy.com.

## **What You’ll Do:** - Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure and systems related to our blockchain participation and custody offerings. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, system automation, and incident response. - Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our infrastructure. - Develop a present and forward looking view into what’s happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business. Establish and communicate views that inform leadership and organizational strategy. - Continuously research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in the web3/blockchain space. - Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business. - Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve our participation. - Implement monitoring, observability tools and best practices to ensure the health, performance, and stability of our blockchain infrastructure. - Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services. - Work through others, to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, scaling, and recovery processes.

## **What We’re Looking For:** - 4+ years of software engineering experience. - Hands on experience operating Solana, Ethereum or similar validation infrastructure (or RPC). - Experience with Kubernetes, or similar compute orchestration systems and a familiarity with container orchestration. - Skill in defining infrastructure as code with Terraform or other infrastructure orchestration tooling. - Experience participating in or reading/parsing on-chain activity. - Ability to build backend services in addition to infrastructure.

## **What We Offer:** - Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus. - Competitive paid time off. - Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents. - Free virtual coaching sessions through Headspace. - Free daily snacks in-office. - Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry. - Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues. *Benefits may vary depending on location.*

Galaxy Digital is a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm providing institutions and direct clients with comprehensive solutions across the digital assets ecosystem. The company operates two main business segments: Digital Assets (offering trading, asset management, lending, and advisory services) and Data Centers (developing AI and high-performance computing infrastructure).