Location: Remote
Orca’s vision is to build a financial system that puts people first. We envision a future where the majority of global financial transactions are driven by CLAMMs and other Decentralized Finance (DeFi) products. Our ambition reaches beyond becoming the leading provider of financial primitives in crypto—we aim to reshape the foundation of finance itself. We are building the next NASDAQ. If you are someone who is tired of just working another job and wants to build something meaningful, then we invite you to join our team.
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Orca, you will play a key role in shaping the backbone of our systems and workflows. Your mission will be to ensure our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and efficient, empowering the engineering team to deliver high-impact solutions.
What You’ll Do
Shape AWS Workflows : Design, manage, and optimize AWS infrastructure with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Triage and resolve critical infrastructure issues proactively.
Enhance CI/CD Pipelines : Build and refine CI/CD processes using modern tools, ensuring seamless, secure, and efficient deployments.
Elevate Observability : Develop robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Datadog or Grafana to improve visibility and system performance.
Promote Stability and Scalability : Architect systems that handle growth effortlessly, minimize downtime, and maintain high performance.
Design Alerting Systems : Implement effective alerting mechanisms to prioritize and address critical issues proactively.
Streamline Infrastructure Workflows : Optimize and document infrastructure processes, leveraging tools like Terraform, Docker, and Airflow to create scalable and maintainable systems.
Collaborate on System Design : Partner with engineering teams to design and refine infrastructure that powers features like real-time monitoring, automated transaction execution, and analytics.
What You’ll Bring
Proven Experience : A strong track record of working on high-performance, scalable systems with expertise in release engineering, infrastructure, and operations.
AWS Proficiency : Extensive experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, copilot, Cloudwatch) and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize cloud-based systems.
CI/CD Expertise : Hands-on experience with tools like GitHub Action for reliable and efficient deployment workflows.
Observability Knowledge : Familiarity with tools like Datadog to build actionable monitoring and alerting systems.
Technical Skills : Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, and containerization tools like Docker. Experience with orchestrators like Kubernetes or Airflow is a plus.
Balanced Mindset : Comfortable working independently in an async environment while collaborating effectively with a team. You understand trade-offs and advocate for pragmatic solutions.
Understanding of DeFi : Familiarity with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) concepts, AMMs, and the Solana ecosystem is a plus but not required.
What We Offer
Salary : 175,000 - 220,000 USDC (Range for US Employees)
Token Allocation : 50,000 - 100,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US Employees)
Flexible Work Schedule
Home Office Stipend
Wellness Stipend
Remote Work Option : Option to work remotely or from our NYC office.
Paid Tools : Subscriptions to tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other productivity enhancers.
Our hiring process
Orca is transparent and efficient. We move fast, and this process will be short and intense. We believe our process enables us to make decisions quickly so we avoid long, drawn out interview rounds that last weeks.
Initial Screen (50-60 min)
This is an opportunity for us to better understand your experience and knowledge of Solana and DeFi, and an opportunity for you to learn more about the role and company (20-30 min). In the same session, we might ask you to advance directly to a coding exercise so we can evaluate your technical proficiency (30 min).
COO Round (60min)
An interview with Isaac, our COO. This is a chance for you to learn about Orca's history, present status, and its bright future. Isaac will also assess your knowledge of AMMs and DeFi.
3rd Round (60 min each)
This round will consist of 3 open-ended coding interviews back-to-back all conducted the same day. It will be with Yutaro (Founder/CTO), Brenton or Will (Infra), Phil (Sr Engineer).
Our stack
Rust, Timescale, Postgres
Next.js, Typescript, Zustand, Tailwind
Solana's Geyser plugin, Yellowstone gRPC
Solana smart contracts using Anchor
Terraform, AWS ECS, Datadog, Vercel
GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack
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Orca is an equal opportunity employer.
$175K – $220K
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