VP, Protocol / Backend Engineer

Who We Are: Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, growing the economy that runs on code. Galaxy delivers the onchain infrastructure that connects institutions to digital assets, including trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization. Galaxy also develops and operates data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Anchored by its Helios campus in Texas, Galaxy is building a multi-gigawatt pipeline of more than 5.7 GW of potential capacity, positioning it among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Additional information about Galaxy's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com . What We Value: We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be. Seek Excellence. Be Selective To Be Effective. Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled. Disagree Transparently. Encourage Independent Decision-Making. Build Dream Teams. Who You Are: You are an experienced Protocol, DevOps or SRE Engineer with; - Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming language (.Net, Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, etc.) - Demonstrated experience working with blockchain infrastructure or strong knowledge of the blockchain domain (proof-of-stake consensus, web3, RPC, etc) particularly Solana or ETH. - Deep Observability Know-how: metrics, tracing, block/slot analytics, alerting, incident debugging, and performance dashboards along with research aptitude and a desire to never repeat the same problem twice. - Performance engineering experience**:** profiling, lock contention, cache behavior, async networking, kernel/network tuning, benchmarking, and p99 latency reduction. - Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and virtualization technologies (VMWare, KVM, Docker or similar). - A security mindset: awareness of adversarial transaction flows, spam/DoS resistance, economic exploits, key management, and safe handling of privileged validator infrastructure. - Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to distill information to both technical and non-technical audiences. What You’ll Do: Engineer resilient distributed services related to our blockchain participation offerings that handle high-throughput transaction flow, backpressure, retries, failures, and real-time coordination. Dive into Rust + systems programming**:** engaging in low-latency, memory-safe backend work and build comfort in reading/modifying Solana validator-adjacent code. Integrate with validator or node pipelines and reason about consensus, block production, transaction propagation, execution limits, and fee markets. Identify & implement solutions for your domain where process, automation or tooling can significantly improve our ability to operate our systems. Develop a present and forward looking view into what's happening in each part of your domain and how it applies to the business. Establish and communicate views that inform leadership and organizational strategy. Continuously research and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in the Web3/Blockchain space. Identify, scope and build on new product opportunities that may bring value to the business Debug complex distributed blockchains and protocols to improve our participation. Participate in and make improvements to, domain specific on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services. What We’re Looking For: Prior software engineering or application development experience in modern programming l…