Senior Software Engineer - Go & Rust, Blockchain Infrastructure

Location

United States; Portugal

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Build

Compensation

United States Salary Range (P4): $171K $214K 3 Offers Equity 3 Offers Bonus 3 OTE Range (P4): $196,650 USD to $246,100 USD

Overview

Quicknode is a cloud-based infrastructure company that powers the blockchain ecosystem. Our mission is to be the indispensable utility that empowers companies and innovators globally to build next-generation, Web3 enabled businesses & applications using blockchain technology. Quicknode is backed by some of the world's best investors including Tiger Global, Y Combinator, SoftBank, and the Seven Seven Six Fund. The Quicknode team has over 110 people maintaining high performance global data infrastructure for amazing customers serving billions of requests daily. We are a global remote company with offices in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Lisbon, Portugal.

The Role

Quicknode deploys institutional-grade infrastructure - Core RPC API, Streams, Webhooks, Clusters, and developer tooling - across 80+ blockchain networks for teams building onchain. The Engineering team behind this infrastructure needs a senior individual contributor who can design, build, and improve the distributed systems that ingest, process, and serve blockchain data at scale, working across both Go and Rust. This is a hands-on engineering and technical-leadership role for someone who moves comfortably between high-throughput Go services and performance- and security-critical Rust components. You will own complex systems from design through production and raise the engineering bar on reliability, performance, security, and operational quality. This role reports into Engineering leadership for the Blockchain Infrastructure team and carries no direct reports at this level. As scope grows, you will take on larger system ownership, mentor other engineers, and help set engineering standards adopted across teams - a natural path toward Staff or Principal Engineer.

What You'll Do

Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend services, APIs, and data-processing systems in both Go and Rust for production blockchain infrastructure.
Own production Go services and Rust components, including their architecture, interfaces, concurrency models, memory and resource efficiency, testing, observability deployment operation.
Architect distributed systems that ingest process validate serve blockchain data with strong guarantees around consistency fault tolerance scalability availability.
Own technical work end to end including requirements architecture implementation testing deployment observability incident response continuous improvement.
Profile benchmark production systems identify bottlenecks improve throughput latency resource efficiency resilience correctness under load.
Assess security risks in blockchain distributed-system components design review controls protect transactions data credentials system integrity.
Debug complex failures across services databases streaming systems networks blockchain nodes then drive durable root-cause fixes.
Partner Product Infrastructure Security Developer Experience teams translate customer protocol requirements maintainable systems.
Lead design code reviews mentor engineers document important decisions establish engineering standards improve quality across teams.

What You'll Bring

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years professional software engineering experience including substantial experience building operating backend distributed systems high-scale production environments.
Advanced professional proficiency both Go Rust demonstrated experience shipping operating production software each language core requirements this role.
Deep knowledge distributed systems algorithms data structures concurrency memory safety ownership databases networking operating systems production software architecture.
A record delivering reliable scalable systems measurable improvements performance availability correctness developer experience.
Experience blockchain infrastructure high-throughput APIs node RPC infrastructure data-streaming pipelines similarly demanding distributed platforms.
Experience applying secure-design principles threat modeling disciplined testing systems correctness availability critical.
Strong written verbal communication skills sound technical judgment ability lead ambiguous cross-team projects without constant direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience Ethereum Solana other major blockchain protocols node RPC indexing transaction-processing architecture.
Experience designing clean interfaces between Go services Rust systems libraries performance-sensitive components.
Experience designing reviewing cryptographic wallet signing custody security-sensitive systems.
Experience streaming data infrastructure Kafka queues event-driven services distributed databases large-scale observability systems.
Demonstrated technical leadership architecture ownership mentorship incident leadership engineering standards adopted multiple teams.

The Quicknode compensation philosophy includes pillars ensure fair unbiased compensation all employees design deliver total reward offerings employee-centric offer competitive benefit package locations operate prioritize attracting retaining best talent globally maintain high-performing flexible way working during hiring process discuss compensation openly honestly candidates encouraged share salary expectations early individualized discussion continuously learn market business needs best achieve goals thoughtful data-driven practices quicknode equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants receive consideration without regard race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status any other characteristic protected law compensation range 171k 214k