# Member of Technical Staff, Protocols

**Company**: Anchorage Digital
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-Time - Remote
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110660778

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## Description

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure.

The Protocols team is the back-end team at Anchorage Digital that works closest to the blockchain. We are responsible for developing cutting-edge digital assets on top of the latest blockchain technologies and working closely with product and design teams to build out DeFi, governance, and participation mechanisms with blockchains.

## Responsibilities

- Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital's platform.

- Implement participatory features that clients need, such as staking, governance, vesting, etc.

- Develop infrastructure that scales across all crypto-networks.

- Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues.

- Contribute with and review code across the entire stack and engineering organization.

- Find the right balance between progress and perfection.

- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.

- Influence architecture/product roadmap.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.

- Help scale the team.

- Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.

- Ship code that will impact the global economy.

## Requirements

- You have real-world experience building complex distributed systems.

- You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.

- You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.

- You prioritize end-user experience and business value over 'cool tech.'

- You have developed 'computer science fundamentals', i.e., concurrency, algorithms, and data structures.

- You self-describe as some combination of creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with applied cryptography.

- Comfortable diving down the stack and into open-source projects to root cause a bug.

- Knowledge of blockchain protocol white papers and staying up-to-date with cryptoasset innovations.

- Background in the finance industry.

## Tech Stack

- Backend Tech: Go, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL.

- Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper-resistant ledgers, air-gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- C++
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Vault
- GCP
- AWS
- GraphQL
- distributed systems
- cryptography
- blockchain

### Nice to have
- applied cryptography
- open-source projects
- finance industry
- blockchain protocol white papers

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