Infrastructure Engineer at Conduit in New York City, NY

Conduit is an enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure and tooling platform powering the next generation of on-chain applications. Our platform supports many of the most notable teams in crypto, with use cases spanning payments, tokenization, and beyond. Built for security, customization, and scalability, Conduit delivers production-grade reliability paired with deep blockchain expertise—so teams can stay focused on what matters most: their product. Backed by a $37M Series A led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures, Conduit is a remote-first company with offices in San Francisco and New York City for those who prefer a hybrid environment. Our team brings experience from companies like Meta, Amazon, Aave, Compound, and Paradigm. We’re building the infrastructure layer that will power on-chain finance for the next decade. If you want to build something people rely on every day, join us. About the Role Conduit's infrastructure team builds systems and tools to enable the Conduit Platform in a reliable, secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. As a senior member of a small, embedded infra team, you'll be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling infrastructure capabilities — and in enabling other engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role where you'll have significant influence over how Conduit's infrastructure evolves. Responsibilities - Embed with engineering teams to drive infrastructure design decisions and help bring new products and services from prototype to production - Define and build internal tooling and processes to enable teams to deploy, migrate, and operate services more reliably and efficiently - Own large-scope infrastructure projects end-to-end including service migrations, ingress architecture, and internal orchestration and control plane design - Lead design and implementation of solutions to improve availability, reliability, and security of Conduit services - Drive sustainable incident response, on-call practices, and retrospectives with a bias toward automation and systemic fixes over manual toil - Participate in on-call rotation Qualifications - 5–7+ years of infrastructure or SRE experience, including hands-on experience scaling production systems - Genuine curiosity about web3 and interest in understanding the products and systems you're supporting - Strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and security best practices - Experience running large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure (100–1,000+ nodes) on a public cloud (AWS, GCP) - Experience designing and supporting highly available and scalable distributed systems - Strong debugging skills across the stack — networking, performance, memory, and service behavior - Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills You'll thrive here if you - Own problems end-to-end and are comfortable navigating ambiguity with limited context - Are always looking to improve systems rather than simply maintain them, you automate the toil and push toward better reliability, cost, and developer experience - Can embed with a product team, understand their context quickly, and help them move faster without sacrificing stability - Like problem solving in a dynamic, collaborative environment with modern cloud tooling CONDUIT DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, SEX, GENDER IDENTITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, NON-DISQUALIFYING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, VETERAN STATUS OR ANY OTHER BASIS COVERED BY APPROPRIATE LAW.