Founding Engineer (Backend)

Antimetal is:

• Designing a new cloud for web3 that
  
  
  • Improves security
  
  
  • Simplifies deployments
  
  
  • Is censorship-resistant
  
  
  
  


• ████████ (in stealth)


• Well-funded

At Antimetal you will have:

• Autonomy - work on what you want


• Ownership - own what you build (great stock options)


• Leadership - help establish technical and cultural foundations of Antimetal


• Smart co-workers and a great office in NYC

Responsibilities:

• Design, architect, and implement cloud primitives


• Develop and deploy orchestration software for automation of DevOps operations


• Build secure data pipelines using cryptographic primitives and network protocols


• Complete and rigorously test our MVP within the next 6 months

You should have:

• N years of experience as a software engineer working on distributed systems and/or cloud native software (for reasonable N)


• Strong expertise in cloud, DevOps, containerization, and container management tools (i.e. k8s, Docker, Prometheus, containerd)


• Significant experience with C/C++, Go, Swift, and/or Rust

Even if you don’t fit all of these requirements, apply anyway.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Datadog, and/or Terraform


• Familiarity with cryptography and network security


• Previously worked in a fast-paced startup environment


• Bachelors in Computer Science, EECS, Mathematics or related fields

Location:

Strong preference for NYC, but open to exceptional candidates elsewhere.

Hiring Process:

Expect 3 interviews (in this order): intro call, take-home coding challenge, and systems design/technical communication.