Staff Software Engineer (SRE)

Phantom is a modern money app that provides crypto-powered financial tools for consumers. The Staff Software Engineer (SRE) will own and scale Kubernetes infrastructure, automate cloud provisioning, optimize system performance, maintain blockchain infrastructure, scale databases, and improve reliability and observability while collaborating with backend and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes Ownership: Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring reliability, performance, and security
• Infrastructure Automation: Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi) to automate infrastructure provisioning and management
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, and resource utilization
• Blockchain Infrastructure: Configure and maintain crypto nodes across multiple blockchains to support our wallet’s operations
• Database Scaling: Optimize and scale database infrastructure to handle terabytes of blockchain data efficiently
• System Reliability: Continuously improve system uptime, monitoring, and observability using tools like Datadog and OpenTelemetry
• Collaboration: Work closely with backend and product teams to support feature development and system scaling

Requirements:

• 8+ years in a SRE or Software Engineer role
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments
• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM)
• Solid experience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi
• Monitoring and observability experience using tools like Datadog or OpenTelemetry