The role involves acting as a systems expert, debugging live systems, automating work processes, diagnosing production issues, and managing scheduled platform changes. The candidate will take ownership of infrastructure and ensure correctness and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as one of the team's Systems experts and share your specialist skills with the rest of the team.
- Automate our own work to make us faster and more reliable.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues in real time, often under time pressure.
- Carry out scheduled changes to the platform, like upgrades, migrations, capacity changes, and rollouts.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Strong system-design judgment with the ability to weigh tradeoffs.
- Comfortable forming strong opinions on both high- and low-level technical decisions.
About Axiom
Axiom is a zero-knowledge coprocessor for Ethereum that provides smart contracts with trustless access to historical blockchain data and compute. By generating ZK-SNARK proofs of past state, transactions, and receipts, Axiom enables developers to build data-rich dApps, retroactive rewards, on-chain identity systems, and dynamic DeFi without relying on centralized oracles. Backed by top crypto venture firms, Axiom combines cutting-edge cryptography with developer-first tooling. The engineering bar emphasizes applied cryptography, halo2 circuit design, and EVM internals. Axiom utilizes ZK-SNARK proofs to give Ethereum smart contracts trustless access to historical blockchain data, enabling data-rich dApps and dynamic DeFi applications. Axiom utilizes ZK-SNARK proofs to give Ethereum smart contracts trustless access to historical blockchain data, enabling data-rich dApps and dynamic DeFi applications.