Staff Software Engineer (SRE) at Phantom

About Phantom

Phantom is dedicated to connecting the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people globally use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins, and memes. Phantom users can discover relevant markets 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 enables users to control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide. Phantom has achieved #1 ranking in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories, featured in Forbes Fintech 50 and CNBC and Statista's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026!

We are a fully remote company of around 180 people, 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 an 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 such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog or OpenTelemetry.

Why Work With Us

Phantom's journey to becoming a global trading app started by making crypto easier to use. Today, we are building upon that foundation to help people discover the markets that matter, make informed financial moves, and safely store or spend their money worldwide. Joining Phantom means helping shape the next chapter by:

• Building for global impact: Creating products utilized by tens of millions of people, making innovative financial markets more accessible globally.
• Making complexity feel simple: Solving meaningful challenges across design, engineering, and user experience to make discovering markets and managing money seamless.
• Putting users in control: Helping build a future where people have greater freedom over their assets and financial decisions, with security and self-custody at the foundation.

Benefits (Available to full-time employees)

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive insurance (medical, dental, vision): base plan 100% covered.
• Flexible hours and a supportive, long-standing remote environment.
• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we truly mean it!).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Wellness stipend.
• Weekly meal stipend.
• Learning & Development stipend.
• Remote / WFH set-up stipend.

We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we are eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. By submitting your resume and application materials, you acknowledge and agree that Phantom Technologies, Inc. (