Staff Software Engineer (SRE)

Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people all over the world use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. Phantom users are able to discover the markets that matter and the cultural moments that shape them, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets them control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.

Phantom has reached #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories. Check out our Forbes Fintech 50 and CNBC and Statista's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026!

We are around 180 people, fully remote, backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Ownership: Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.

• Infrastructure Automation: Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi) to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.

• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, and resource utilization.

• Blockchain Infrastructure: Configure and maintain crypto nodes across multiple blockchains to support our wallet’s operations.

• Database Scaling: Optimize and scale database infrastructure to handle terabytes of blockchain data efficiently.

• System Reliability: Continuously improve system uptime, monitoring, and observability using tools like Datadog and OpenTelemetry.

• Collaboration: Work closely with backend and product teams to support feature development and system scaling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a SRE or Software Engineer role.

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments.

• Proficiency with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM).

• Solid experience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.

• Monitoring and observability experience using tools like Datadog or OpenTelemetry.

The target base salary for this role will range between $200,000 to $250,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.