Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Nexus

full-time

Posted on: 10/8/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Senior

Distributed SystemsGoRust

About the role

Architect and implement low-latency, high-throughput financial infrastructure for Nexus’s Layer 1 and DEX.
Own major roadmap milestones: public testnet → mainnet → institutional-grade performance.
Optimize consensus and transaction pipelines for speed, determinism, and security.
Collaborate with cryptography and protocol teams to integrate cutting-edge zero-knowledge proofs into production systems.
Mentor mid-level engineers and establish engineering best practices for reliability, security, and observability.
Ensure high availability and fault tolerance for mission-critical financial systems.

6–10+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in infrastructure or systems roles.
Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems (e.g., HFT, distributed trading platforms, real-time financial exchanges).
Strong programming background in Rust (preferred), C++, Go, or similar systems languages.
Deep knowledge of network protocols, concurrency, and distributed systems.
Experience delivering secure, production-grade systems with measurable performance gains.

Benefits

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low-latency systemshigh-throughput systemsRustC++Gonetwork protocolsconcurrencydistributed systemszero-knowledge proofsproduction-grade systems

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