About Ithaca

Crypto must go faster. We have started Ithaca, a company designed to accelerate the crypto frontier, and have raised $20M from Paradigm.

Over the past four years, our global group of less than 20 engineers has shipped some of the industry’s most used open source tools like Reth & Foundry. We believe in sustainable open source development for the good of crypto, and in creating the right incentive system for commercial consumer experiences.

The stack is ready. We can achieve the step-level changes needed to enable consumers to fully leverage crypto with fast, cheap, global and private experiences.

We have been collaborating with the developer community and industry for the last years, and we are excited to continue accelerating crypto together.

Platform Engineer Role @ Ithaca.

As a Platform Engineer at Ithaca, you will work on bleeding-edge infrastructure that will accelerate the crypto industry. You will play a crucial role in enabling our team to rapidly ship new features and keeping up with our vision to unlock the next generation of applications in crypto.

We believe in fast iterations and feedback loops, which translates to short software release cycles and constantly changing our infrastructure. We value continuous performance benchmarking and testing for correctness and thus strive to keep our code lean, performant and robust.

We’re looking for engineers that can support us with shipping robust code, shipping performant code and shipping more code, faster. By joining our team, we offer an exciting opportunity for you to contribute to core open-source crypto infrastructure and the ability to work on cutting-edge features.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the key stakeholder that drives and executes our teams infrastructure.

• Ability to design, drive and own complex features throughout the whole lifecycle, being able to handle input from various internal stakeholders.

• Comfortable working independently, handling ambiguity, and managing undefined requirements.

• Share innovative ideas to contribute to the team roadmap and consistently raise the bar for others with impactful contributions.

• Comfortable working within fast iteration cycles, continuously optimizing through testing, benchmarking and feedback from other peers.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in maintaining and scaling both bare metal servers and cloud environments for production systems.

• Skilled in monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana), with the ability to assist team members with troubleshooting.

• Proficient in coding or scripting languages such as Rust, Go, or Python.

• Capable of developing custom tools and contributing to open-source projects.

• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes and configuration management tools e.g. Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD.

• Strong Linux and networking skills and experience with troubleshooting on linux systems.

• Background in securing and hardening infrastructure (uptime, self-healing, security requirements).

Nice to Have

• Prior Rust experience is beneficial but not required for Platform Engineers.

• Prior experience with blockchain infrastructure, ideally Ethereum / OP-stack is a plus.