\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research. As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.\n\n\nTeam Overview\n\n\nThe Infrastructure Team maintains and optimizes the underlying systems and networks that support all company operations. They focus on ensuring our infrastructure's high availability, performance, and security. The team works on designing scalable architecture, implementing robust monitoring and alerting systems, and automating processes to improve efficiency. They also collaborate closely with other teams to support the deployment and operation of applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance across our platforms.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure solutions for Gauntlet’s platforms, including projects focused on enhancing network security, optimizing cloud resource allocation, and developing automated deployment pipelines.\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and enhance infrastructure systems tailored to the company's needs, with upcoming projects involving integrating new blockchain technologies and real-time data processing capabilities.\n* Participate in code and design reviews specific to infrastructure projects, offering constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices in infrastructure development.\n* Stay informed about emerging infrastructure technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improve system architecture.\n* Develop and maintain technical documentation to support infrastructure operations and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team.\n* Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure-related issues, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the platform's services.\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* 3+ years of professional experience in software development, focusing on infrastructure and platform engineering.\n* Proficient in at least one programming language commonly used for infrastructure automation and scripting, such as Python, Bash, or Go.\n* Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Ansible, and cloud platforms, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure systems.\n* Strong skills in CI/CD processes and tools, emphasizing automating and streamlining deployment pipelines.\n* Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and management\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Experience in building real-time applications or systems.\n* Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices.\n* Previous work with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and applications\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,500 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto, Finance, Cloud and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $80,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research. As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.\n\n\nTeam Overview\n\n\nThe Data Team is responsible for developing and maintaining robust data pipelines that ensure the accuracy and availability of data across the organization. They work closely with other teams to provide insights and analytics that drive business strategies and optimize performance. The Data Team enhances the company's data-driven decision-making capabilities by leveraging advanced data processing frameworks and tools.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Design, implement, and maintain scalable data processing solutions for Gauntlet’s data platforms, focusing on high availability and performance.\n* Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to develop and enhance data ingestion and processing systems tailored to the needs of the data team.\n* Participate in code and design reviews specific to data projects, offering constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices in data software development.\n* Stay informed about emerging data technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improve data system architecture.\n* Develop and maintain technical documentation to support data system operations and facilitate knowledge sharing within the data team.\n* Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data-related software issues, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the data platform's services.\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* 3+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on backend data systems.\n* Proficient in at least one programming language commonly used for data processing and streaming applications, such as Python or Rust, within a data team context\n* Experience with data ingestion and processing frameworks, such as Kafka, tailored to the needs of a data team\n* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on building scalable and efficient data systems\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Strong understanding of blockchain technology and DeFi protocols, with a keen interest in expanding knowledge in these areas, especially regarding data systems.\n* Experience in building real-time applications or systems.\n* Knowledge of Rust \n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,500 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto, Python, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $35 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.\n\n\nWe are looking for engineers for a few projects! See below:\n\n\nPivot/Courier Services\n\n\nWe're developing an algorithmic trading platform to optimize strategies Gauntlet oversees on-chain to capture opportunities across DeFi. We're looking for a product-focused systems generalist to work with users to define requirements and build the system's required components!\n\n\nData & Models\n\n\nWe develop & own the services that power Gauntlet's platform, including all our model capture, infrastructure, deployments & tools to support & scale our systems!\n\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems for data from DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and various other data sources\n* Contribute to making our platform world-class\n* Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their system requirements and provide the necessary support to help their productivity.\n* Implement quality control measures to ensure system integrity and quality\n* Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards\n* Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of the platform\n* Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides\n* Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* At least 4 years of professional development experience. More is better but we're flexible\n* Experience with building backend systems.\n* Experience developing production-quality software in high-performance languages. We currently use Python and Typescript but are open to exceptional language agnostic candidates.\n* Experience with dynamic isolated environments  and operational alerting\n* Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and related technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.\n* Ability to quickly internalize abstract concepts in new domains, coupled with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.\n* Ability to work independently and within a team, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.\n* Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment\n* Interests or passion for DeFi and the broader crypto ecosystem, with a willingness to immerse oneself in the space.\n* Bonus Points\n* Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but is not required.\n* Background in working with complex data sets in data-rich environments\n* Experience with languages and tooling related to complex streaming problems\n* Familiarity with cloud solutions like Google Cloud Platform or AWS\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but is not required.\n* Background in working with complex data sets in data-rich environments\n* Experience with languages and tooling related to complex streaming problems\n* Familiarity with cloud solutions like Google Cloud Platform or AWS\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,600 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Cloud, Typescript, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of September 2024, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $46 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain, and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st century financial innovation.\n\n\nAbout Aera\n\n\nAera is a non-custodial, autonomous, on-chain asset management protocol that Gauntlet helped develop. Currently, Aera is focused on providing customizable, optimized treasury management solutions for DAOs. Gauntlet acts as the guardian for several core Aera strategies.\n\n\nIdeal Candidate\n\n\nThis role is ideal for someone looking to “do their best work yet” in the crypto space and challenge themselves to implement a groundbreaking protocol in a nascent category. One day you will look at low-level gas optimization, another, you'll think about high-level invariants in Foundry. This will be an opportunity to make a lasting contribution by helping develop a groundbreaking protocol that solves a real use case. The right candidate understands that product success doesn't just come down to the code. They are equally excited to collaborate with other talented individuals and are comfortable taking the product perspective on protocol development occasionally.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Using industry best practices, we write and review high-assurance smart contract code, tests, invariants, and other deliverables for our protocol projects.\n* Contribute ideas to protocol design & architecture and make refinements during development. Collaborate effectively with client team members.\n* Embrace and contribute to our internal methodologies, coding standards, review methods, and other standard operating procedures.\n* Help evaluate/research other protocols/infrastructure we could integrate with\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including researchers and product managers, to ensure seamless implementation of new features.\n* Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards.\n* Participate in internal security audits emphasizing robust processes, continuous learning, and ownership.\n* Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of Aera’s platform.\n* Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides.\n* Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* 4+ years of professional experience in software development.\n* Proficient at writing code in Python, preferably, but open to other languages.\n* 2+ years of experience in Solidity smart contract development.\n* Understanding of blockchain and DeFi protocols, concepts, and best practices.\n* Experience with EVM based blockchain networks strongly preferred.\n* Comfortable learning about and contributing to complex DeFi protocols that may involve understanding MEV, trading, incentives, and mechanism design.\n* Strong communication skills (primarily written) and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment.\n* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.\n* Experience with version control systems (i.e., git).\n* Excitement to work in an early stage setting with significant uncertainty, evolving scope/requirements and many hats to wear\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Experience developing and shipping user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,600 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that at this time, our hiring is reserved for potential employees who can work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $135,000 - $200,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote