Backend Infrastructure & Data Engineer

Description

Hypernative is the proactive onchain security platform for enterprises and institutions. We build the security infrastructure that lets organizations operate and scale onchain with confidence, unifying real-time monitoring, transaction security, fraud prevention, compliance screening, and automated response in a single, institutional-grade platform.

Our technical teams build and run the industry’s most battle-tested machine learning models and real-time infrastructure, resulting in detection engines that have actively prevented over $3 billion in losses across 75+ blockchains.

Founded in 2023, Hypernative raised a $40M Series B and has secured $100B+ in digital assets across 350+ leading organizations, including top financial institutions, exchanges, asset managers, protocols, and chains.

We're looking for an Infrastructure & Data Engineer who is first and foremost a strong developer, passionate about building and scaling robust systems. You'll own the backbone of our data platform - designing, building, and ensuring everything runs smoothly at massive scale. This role focuses on infrastructure and platform engineering, with data engineering responsibilities complementing that focus.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance data pipelines, warehouses, and reporting systems
• Build scalable ETL and real-time streaming architectures to power critical security insights
• Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure and production environments
• Contribute across the entire engineering lifecycle - from planning to execution, delivery, and beyond
• Solve complex data quality, infrastructure, and workflow challenges
• Keep production systems healthy, reliable, and running smoothly at scale
• Optimize and scale systems to handle massive amounts of blockchain data

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with strong Python skills
• Solid experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure also considered)
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience - deploying, managing, and troubleshooting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with databases at scale
• Experience with CI/CD practices and building deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with data pipelines and big data and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or Flink)
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across application and infrastructure layers
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and similar tools)
• Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment
• A can-do attitude, strong communication skills, and a team-player mindset are a must!

• Be part of a cutting-edge security startup in the blockchain space
• Work on high-scale, real-time, mission-critical systems
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers, solving some of the hardest problems in crypto
• Amazing team culture
• Ready to build the future of Web3 security? Apply now!