Energent Media LLC
Founding Engineer – Production Infrastructure
Energent Media LLC, Snowflake, Arizona, United States, 85937
At Shadow, we’re building the end-to-end data platform for crypto.Blockchain networks are the next evolution of the Internet, yet it’s much too difficult to work with onchain data today. We’re taking a crypto-native approach to reimagine blockchain data infrastructure from the ground up, starting with a product that allows anyone to extract custom data from any smart contract.We've raised $9M in seed funding led by Paradigm, with additional angels from Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, and Flashbots.We're a small team who primarily works out of a beautiful office space in NYC.We’re hiring a founding production infrastructure engineer to join our world-class team.About the role
In this role you’ll be working closely with the CTO to architect, maintain, and scale the infrastructure and services that power Shadow. You should get excited about building fast and flexible infrastructure that can handle large volumes of realtime and historical data.What you'll do (responsibilities)
We're looking for an experienced IC who wants to:Build the new standard for onchain data.
You will own large parts of the infrastructure that become the new standard for storing, processing, and indexing onchain data.Crush every other benchmark.
We plan to publicly release benchmarks vs other onchain data systems, and your name will be listed prominently for everyone to see.Drive business outcomes.
Performance is a major differentiator in this space. Every optimization you make will lead directly to winning customers and market share.Our tech stack
Kubernetes on GCP, ArgoCD, PulumiBackend infrastructure built in RustKafka, BigTable, Postgres, Snowflake/BigQueryTypescript and Next.jsSolidity and VyperWhat we're looking for (qualifications)
You're an ambitious staff-level IC with 0-1 experience building performant and scalable backend infrastructure and distributed systems.Confident with managing large-scale cloud infrastructure deployments.
You have extensive experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.Interest in onchain data and data infrastructure.
You’ve built distributed systems that handle terabytes of data, and are deeply familiar with event-driven architectures.Curious and quick learning.
We don't expect you to have experience in every technology we use, but to learn and be productive quickly. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains.Pragmatic attention to detail.
You hold your work to a high standard. You strive for few slips in code, clean Git hygiene, and clear written communication — all while remaining low-ego and solution oriented.Good heart.
We are a group of friendly ambitious nerds who are effortlessly kind to one another, and we don't tolerate jerks.Why join
Team
—we have a high bar; you'll be on a small team of extremely talented individuals.Impact
—work on stuff that actually matters and will grow crypto as a whole.Ownership
—you will have an extreme level of autonomy over your work.Who you'll be working with#J-18808-Ljbffr
In this role you’ll be working closely with the CTO to architect, maintain, and scale the infrastructure and services that power Shadow. You should get excited about building fast and flexible infrastructure that can handle large volumes of realtime and historical data.What you'll do (responsibilities)
We're looking for an experienced IC who wants to:Build the new standard for onchain data.
You will own large parts of the infrastructure that become the new standard for storing, processing, and indexing onchain data.Crush every other benchmark.
We plan to publicly release benchmarks vs other onchain data systems, and your name will be listed prominently for everyone to see.Drive business outcomes.
Performance is a major differentiator in this space. Every optimization you make will lead directly to winning customers and market share.Our tech stack
Kubernetes on GCP, ArgoCD, PulumiBackend infrastructure built in RustKafka, BigTable, Postgres, Snowflake/BigQueryTypescript and Next.jsSolidity and VyperWhat we're looking for (qualifications)
You're an ambitious staff-level IC with 0-1 experience building performant and scalable backend infrastructure and distributed systems.Confident with managing large-scale cloud infrastructure deployments.
You have extensive experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.Interest in onchain data and data infrastructure.
You’ve built distributed systems that handle terabytes of data, and are deeply familiar with event-driven architectures.Curious and quick learning.
We don't expect you to have experience in every technology we use, but to learn and be productive quickly. We value people who can quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains.Pragmatic attention to detail.
You hold your work to a high standard. You strive for few slips in code, clean Git hygiene, and clear written communication — all while remaining low-ego and solution oriented.Good heart.
We are a group of friendly ambitious nerds who are effortlessly kind to one another, and we don't tolerate jerks.Why join
Team
—we have a high bar; you'll be on a small team of extremely talented individuals.Impact
—work on stuff that actually matters and will grow crypto as a whole.Ownership
—you will have an extreme level of autonomy over your work.Who you'll be working with#J-18808-Ljbffr