Staff Engineer, Syncro
NetherlandsFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- BlockchainKubernetesRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in distributed systems or infrastructure engineering with production-scale ownership
- Strong expertise in low-level performance optimization, including memory management, concurrency, and system-level tuning
- Deep experience with Rust or other systems programming languages (C/C++/Go with transition to Rust preferred)
- Strong understanding of networking protocols and latency optimization (TCP, QUIC, routing, peering, kernel/NIC tuning)
- Experience with distributed infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, IaC)
- Background in high-performance or real-time systems such as trading, MEV, or blockchain infrastructure
- Solid experience with system design ownership, from architecture through production operations
- Strong English communication skills
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop core Syncro components in Rust, focusing on ultra-low-latency execution paths
- Optimize end-to-end transaction and validator pipelines, including routing, networking, and co-location strategies
- Continuously reduce latency through algorithmic improvements, memory optimization, cache efficiency, and lock-free concurrency patterns
- Design and operate multi-region, high-availability infrastructure across bare-metal and cloud environments
- Eliminate single points of failure and ensure robust failover mechanisms across critical systems
- Own system observability, performance metrics, SLOs, and production alerting for latency-sensitive workflows
- Drive automation of safe deployments and continuous delivery for high-risk infrastructure components
- Lead technical design reviews and set engineering standards for performance-critical systems
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