Member of Technical Staff

Technical Skills:

• Create and maintain shared code and libraries that are used by other HSM engineers.
• Improve our code base by refactoring bottlenecks, reducing feedback loops and simplifying APIs.
• Review other developer’s code to ensure proper security invariants across the engineering team.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate flexible and pragmatic solutions.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
• Utilize your ability to break down large projects into smaller tasks, and help the team navigate the ambiguity of the space. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justifies and recommend priorities.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.
• Communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.

You may be a fit for this role if:

• Your programming language of choice is C/C++.
• You have comprehensive experience with secure low level C/C++ programming, kernel development/hardening, and/or embedded systems.
• You have a deep understanding of common crypto algorithms (RSA, ECDSA, BLS, etc.), code signing, network security, authentication/authorization, and the threat landscape for state-of-the-art attacks.
• You have real world experience shipping products and implementing secure frameworks, libraries, and services.
• You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”.
• You self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You are familiar with Hardware Security Modules - ideally Thales.
• In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of crypto asset innovations.
• You have a background in the finance industry.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system.