Job Details

Overview

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This range is provided by 0x. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$95,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr

About the role

As a 0x Platform Engineer, your mission is to ensure our suite of products remains performant, reliable, and scalable while streamlining the developer experience across the organization. You will own critical infrastructure components, automate workflows that eliminate manual toil, and design systems that support low-latency, high-availability workloads. Your work will be highly data-driven, focusing on profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing existing systems to deliver the greatest impact. This role comes with a high degree of ownership, giving you the freedom to identify and implement forward-thinking improvements to 0x's infrastructure, while collaborating closely with teams across the company.

What you'll do

• Ensure uptime, reliability, and resilience across 0x's core products and services
• Own and improve our observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics), driving efficiency and actionable insights
• Design and implement resilient systems for low-latency, high-availability workloads
• Automate engineering workflows including onboarding/offboarding, service provisioning, and infrastructure migrations
• Manage and upgrade cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms while ensuring scalability and high availability
• Optimize build systems and CI/CD pipelines to improve developer velocity and performance
• Collaborate across application, data, and infrastructure teams to debug issues, reduce latency, and drive cross-team automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience with a strong background in platform or infrastructure engineering
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation and scripting (TypeScript or Rust preferred)
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes-based applications in cloud environments (EKS preferred)
• Experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Advanced understanding of modern DevOps practices (GitOps, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry)
• Proven ability to troubleshoot distributed systems, networking, and latency issues in production environments
• Obsessed with optimizing for low latency, high throughput, and developer productivity
• Passion for decentralization and alignment with the 0x mission
• Embody our core values: do the right thing, consistently ship, and create enduring value

Preferred

• Experience with Kong, Envoy, or other service mesh / API gateway technologies
• Familiarity with Cilium or other Kubernetes networking technologies
• Experience with Apache Kafka or other event-streaming platforms
• Background in telemetry optimization and observability tuning
• Experience running and interacting with Ethereum nodes or other blockchain infrastructure

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is USD $95,000 - $230,000 + equity + ZRX tokens + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, location, business needs, and candidate preferences between the different compensation elements.
• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability) for U.S.-based employees — 100% of base plan covered for you and dependents
• 401k and FSA for U.S.-based employees
• Monthly mobile phone bill, wellness, and pre-tax transportation expense
• Covered mental health benefits (included professional therapy sessions)
• A supportive remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for all employees across the globe
• Stipend for remote / WFH set-up: headphones, and any other work gear you may need
• 12-week paid parental leave
• Great office in the SF Financial District for those in the region
• Flexible vacation: Take time when you need it
• Multiple annual in-person team meet-ups around the globe

0x and its associated entities are dedicated to fostering diversity, inclusion, and belonging in its teams and workforce, and are proud to be equal opportunity employers. 0x does not make employment or hiring decisions on the basis of protected characteristics and other legally protected traits. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local laws. Our commitment to equal employment opportunity extends to ensuring that all applicants and employees can perform to their fullest potential, including through obtaining reasonable accommodations when necessary.

Compensation Range: $95K - $230K