About the posting
“Ellipsis Labs is seeking our first full-time Infrastructure engineer to join the team.”
Read the full posting on Ellipsislabs' site
Seen live Oct 23, 2026; first seen Oct 22, 2026.
Pay in context
This posting lists $200,000 to $250,000 a year, a midpoint of $225,000.
The midpoint is higher than 56 percent of software engineering postings in New York, NY that list pay.
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How long it has been open
Posted Jan 11, 2024, 1016 days ago, and seen on Ellipsislabs' careers page today.
At 1016 days old, it is over the 73-day median.
Ellipsislabs at a glance
Ellipsislabs has 13 open postings that we can see, 6 in software engineering; 85 percent list pay.
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Seniority
Level: senior.
The posting mentions 3+ years.
Place and cost of living
On site in New York, NY; prices in NY run 8 percent above the US average.
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From Ellipsislabs' posting
This is Ellipsislabs' own text, as published on its job board. We last checked it on Oct 23, 2026. Apply on Ellipsislabs' site. We remove a posting when the employer closes it.
Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Ellipsis Labs is seeking our first full-time Infrastructure engineer to join the team. (We've had a part-time advisor and helper on this so far!) The ideal candidate would consider themselves an infrastructure or systems generalist, excited to tackle sensitive and high-performance financial technology that needs 5+ 9's of reliability.
In this role, you will
- Set foundational infrastructure best practices and architecture
- Develop and own the team's DevOps processes
- Ensure the security and monitoring of critical production systems
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIRED
- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade software systems (ideally in Rust, C++, C, or Golang), with high-quality and well-documented production code
- 3+ years of experience with Unix systems and DevOps
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
- Passion for decentralized finance
PREFERRED
- Experience working with blockchain technology, preferably Solana
- Experience in quant trading or fintech