DevOps Engineer

About Nascent…

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and open technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 50+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

The Opportunity

As a DevOps Engineer at Nascent, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the future of cryptocurrency trading. You will have the chance to architect and optimize our systems, ensuring the resilience and stability of our platform. Your role will encompass everything from designing and maintaining infrastructure to fostering a culture of quality engineering practices within our agile development teams. If you thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and are excited about making a significant impact on the bottom line of a crypto-native firm, then this opportunity is tailor-made for you.

Responsibilities

• Guarantee the resilience and stability of our systems through meticulous code reviews, rigorous unit, regression, and user acceptance testing.


• Create and maintain automation scripts and tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks to enhance efficiency.


• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline the deployment process, enhancing the reliability of trading applications.


• Collaborate on system architecture and interface design, spanning the entire technology stack, including front end, API, and back end.


• Take ownership of multiple components, overseeing their design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance.


• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in case of system failures or unforeseen events.


• Act as a vital contributor to our lean and agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.


• Advocate for and apply quality engineering practices at every stage of development.

About You

• You excel in less structured environments and thrive when given the autonomy to build and drive results.


• Your enthusiasm spans from project initiation to completion, maintenance, and continual optimization.


• You are resourceful, capable of balancing speed and precision, and can navigate the fine line between moving fast and ensuring accuracy from the start.

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years of DevOps experience.


• Proven experience in building scalable, high-performance, production-level applications with regular release cycles.


• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.


• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, and Bash


• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), and monitoring tools (e.g.,Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).


• Understanding of security best practices and their application in a financial trading environment


• A fundamental understanding of financial markets, trading concepts, and real-time trading environments is a plus.

Required

• 2+ years of DevOps with AWS and Terraform.


• A deep understanding of AWS networking and security best practices.


• Proven experience with high value, high performance, multi-region systems.


• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.

Preferred

• Familiarity with alternative cloud providers (e.g. Azure, Alibaba) and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog).


• Experience with products which prioritize low latency and high availability.


• Experience with fast moving requirements and knowledge of best practices for extensibility.


• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, and Bash.


• A fundamental understanding of financial markets, trading concepts, and real-time trading environments is a plus.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Build for the long term


• Align incentives


• Be nimble


• Compete to win


• Explore, experiment, play


• Always be building


• Give and embrace real feedback

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment


• Remote and distributed working environment


• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life


• Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work


• Home Office, coworking space and wellness stipend


• Retirement plan matching contributions


• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location


• Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth


• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.