Pyth Network Careers

We are looking for a driven, growth-minded, collaborative, and people-focused contributor who demonstrates proven success with relationship building, accountability, creativity, and follow-through. The ideal candidate doesn’t just love working with people, they value the business impact they can make by promoting a positive employee lifecycle experience.  

As an HR Business Partner you will support the global business and will work closely with business leadership. You will be responsible for implementing processes, systems and policies focused on improving the experience across the employee lifecycle. This is a standalone role where the right candidate will be a key contributor at a  strategic level complemented with a hands-on approach and lots of initiative.

About Us and the Job

• We are a small team, and about half the team is technical.
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Our success depends on external developers using our protocol. Good candidates will be able to intelligently converse with technically-minded users and answer their questions.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with business leadership on all aspects of people operations strategy, engagement and culture.
• Develop and support HR operations related to the employee life cycle for the business including onboarding, benefits, immigration, exits, etc.
• Identifying, assessing, and developing key talent by driving people processes (performance, development, and career) to ensure employees’ level of performance meets current and future standards.
• Develop people policies and processes related to across different locations, ensuring compliance with applicable employment law.
• Facilitate continuous dialogue throughout the organization to identify talent gaps, future development opportunities and training needs and create new training initiatives accordingly.
• Partner with managers on employee relations and performance management.
• Actively respond to HR operational queries and escalate matters where appropriate.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, HR or related field from an accredited university
• At least 5 years Human Resources experience preferred (Crypto, Technology or Financial Services industry highly desired).
• At least 2 years in an advisory or partner role working to solve sensitive employee relations issues with the business.
• Have experience in multi-country HR/People Ops/legal/payroll operations in a fast-paced environment, ideally within a startup or scale-up businesses
• Experience with HRIS systems such as Workday and Greenhouse and other systems such as Confluence and JIRA.
• Previous experience with MS Office products (Outlook, Excel, Word, OneNote), strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLookUp)

Skills and Attributes, You’ll Need:

• Creative self-starter with intellectual curiosity who takes the initiative to resolve problems.
• Clear thinking/problem solving; successfully lead projects/process improvement, strong analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; experience working with multiple levels (including executive level), functions, and regions.
• Must be a self-directed individual with a positive attitude and high energy level.
• Strong business acumen, self-directed, results-oriented and the ability to manage frequently changing priorities and projects
• Must be meticulous with details, organized and easily adaptable to a fast, ever-changing work environment
• Demonstrate high emotional intelligence skills. Strong proactive interest in learning/mastering HR best practices while improving processes.
• Outstanding coaching and interpersonal skills.
• Master of communicating and navigating sensitive and highly confidential information.
• Bilingual English/Portuguese required.
• Predictable and reliable availability.

About Us and the Job:

• We are a small team, and about half the team is technical.
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Our success depends on external developers using our protocol. Good candidates will be able to intelligently converse with technically-minded users and answer their questions.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You'll Do: 

• Work closely with Sales, Development, Support, Legal, Compliance, and Networking to bring new market data providers onboard. 
• Work with software engineers and developers to fix bugs, re-write code and roll out new releases.
• Monitor real-time pricing data on the network.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for data providers to make sure the integration process is efficient and over time identify mutually beneficial new business opportunities. 
• Coordinate integration and conformance tests, analyzing metrics and pricing logs.
• Serve as the front line of support for any issues that arise before and post go-live. 
• Identify and implement new processes to improve the data provider experience which in turn adds robustness to the network.
• Participate in regular prioritization meetings and help launch new products.
• Gather feedback from the data providers to help inform Pyth’s growth strategy.
• Other duties as assigned or needed. 

Skills You Need: 

• 3+ years of experience in a fast paced, externally facing environment.
• Ability to take ownership of production issues and close out to completion.
• Deep understanding of the technical integration processes on a blockchain.
• Ability to analyse data logs/metrics.
• Ability to monitor real-time data and escalate issues.
• UAT testing.
• A good understanding of RPC node and Validator infrastructure is desirable.
• Ability to run python scripts.
• Familiarity with market data with an ability to troubleshoot day-to-day issues that arise as part of the onboarding process.
• Outstanding communication, organizational skills, and professionalism.
• Knowledge and interest in Crypto, Pricing Oracles, DeFi, blockchain. 
• Reliable and predictable availability. 

We are building a decentralized protocol that connects these market data providers to DeFi applications. It’s a market that connects these two types of participants, with various incentives to encourage participation on both sides.

However, it turns out that building a decentralized protocol requires lots of web development! Our most prominent website is pyth.network which shows off our price feeds, but there’s more. We need a website that allows end-users to interact with the protocol, a website for developer documentation, and various dashboards and monitoring tools. These websites are the public face of our protocol, and they’re absolutely essential to our success.

We’re looking for frontend engineers who can help us build and maintain these various websites. The primary focus of this job is frontend development; however, since we are a small team, the job will require pitching in on other tasks (such as backend development) to unblock the frontend work. Good candidates will have a strong sense of design and demonstrated experience building attractive, usable web properties. 

About Us and the Job

• We are a small team. About half the team is technical; the other half manages relationships with data providers, developers, and the broader community. (Building a network requires talking to people!)
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly-growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Most of our software development is open source. You can look at our github repositories to understand what we typically work on.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You'll Do:

• Design, build and maintain frontend applications for Pyth Network, including the pyth.network website and internal-facing tools.
• Work with designers to develop a distinctive look and feel for Pyth Network web properties.
• Ensure that Pyth Network websites are usable, responsive and accessible.
• Assist with backend development as necessary to power frontend applications.

Skills You'll Need:

• Strong software engineering skills. Blockchain or web3 experience is not required; we expect that engineers will be able to learn these skills on the job.
• Strong design sense, as demonstrated by a record of building attractive and usable websites.
• Ability to work in a startup-like fast-paced environment to meet the demands of a rapidly-changing market.
• Familiarity with Typescript, React, and Python.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duties.

Pyth Network’s success depends on attracting developers to use our oracle’s prices. Accordingly, we strive to work directly with developers to help them build their applications, including sitting down and writing code with them. This role requires strong software engineering and communication skills — our users should feel like you’re one of their team members. Our developer relations team also answers technical questions and uses their insight about the community to help us improve the developer experience of Pyth Network.

About Us and the Job

• We are a small team, and about half the team is technical.
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly-growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Our success depends on external developers using our protocol. Good candidates will be able to write code with external developers and answer deep technical questions about Pyth Network.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You’ll Do:

• Work directly with the community of Pyth Network developers to increase adoption. Understand developers’ problems and build solutions that reduce the cost of adoption and improve the developer experience.
• Answer technical questions and synthesize insights that can inform product strategy.
• Improve and create technical content — documentation, explainers, examples — to support developers, integrators, and business partners. Publish this content on Github and other channels to make integration of our oracle intuitive and easy.
• Facilitate great onboarding experiences for developers and partners.
• Build relationships with crypto protocols and find mutually beneficial business opportunities.
• Be an active member of our developer community by helping to address technical questions and improve the overall quality of developer support in channels such as Discord, Slack and StackOverflow.
• Speak at conferences playing a community-building role in the global ecosystem.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Strong software engineering skills, as evidenced by 3+ years of experience as a professional software developer or evangelist. You probably have a Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree, but self-taught developers are welcome to apply.
• Technical understanding or exposure to Rust, C, C++, Solidity and Typescript/React. You don’t need all of them — you can pick up the rest on the job.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills. A record of public technical writing and speaking is a plus; if you have any written work or talks you’re proud of, please include them in the application and we’ll take a look.

Operating Pyth Network is a nontrivial challenge. Our price feeds run 24x7. DeFi applications depend on the accuracy and availability of these feeds; an inaccurate price or offline feed can cause serious financial losses. Each feed in turn depends on many different services, some of which are run by our data providers and some by us. It’s a complex system with many different failure modes, but it has to work correctly all the time.

We also run a variety of off-chain services, such as the backend for the pyth.network website, and tools for logging historical data. These services run in a Kubernetes cluster that is managed using Terraform. We also need to ensure these services are running and healthy at all times.

We’re looking for people to help us operate this system and improve its reliability over time. This job has many different aspects, including providing front-line support for incidents, developing automation to manage our infrastructure, and defining deployment plans for high availability.

About us and the Job

• We are a small team. About half the team is technical; the other half manages relationships with data providers, developers, and the broader community. (Building a network requires talking to people!)
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly-growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Most of our software development is open source. You can look at our github repositories to understand what we typically work on.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You'll Do:

• Provide front-line response to incidents and outages, such as unavailable price feeds, or website downtime.
• Develop automation tools to provision and manage our infrastructure, including cloud services and Kubernetes clusters. We currently use Terraform to manage our infrastructure, but we’re not married to it and may use different tools in the future. Some of our tools are written in Python and others in Go.
• Design and implement operational plans to achieve high availability guarantees for our price feeds and web services. Build redundant service deployments, monitoring solutions, dashboards, and alerting tools to ensure that critical services are running continuously. Support services on development and production environments, from before launch through launch. Benchmark application resource consumption to allocate capacity.
• Measure and monitor application metrics (availability, latency, etc.) to understand the health of the system. Work with developers to add metrics and logging to their applications in order to facilitate Grafana dashboards and alerts. Develop logging practices and libraries to standardize metric reporting and alerting across multiple programming languages.

Skills You'll Need:

• Comfortable developing software. Writing software is a big part of the job, as we write lots of tools to automate processes and monitor deployments.
• Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals, such as processes and permissions, along with an understanding of containers (Docker) and cloud deployments.
• Experience troubleshooting, monitoring and debugging cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
• Ability to handle shared operational and periodic on-call duties
• 1+ years of experience supporting critical production environments. Work in financial and crypto markets is a plus.
• Predictable and reliable availability. 

We are looking for software engineers to help us build a decentralized protocol to connect market data providers to DeFi applications. This task includes building the on-chain programs, developer SDKs, tooling, monitoring, frontends and more. We also need help defining the product itself, so we are looking for people who understand the DeFi ecosystem and can help us identify and capitalize on new opportunities.

About Us and the Job

• We are a small team. About half the team is technical; the other half manages relationships with data providers, developers, and the broader community. (Building a network requires talking to people!)
• We are mostly remote. Team members live across the world, in the US, Europe, and Asia. We do have offices in some locations (Porto, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Singapore) for those who prefer in-office work.
• Our team communicates with each other and external developers in English. Strong spoken and written English skills are required.
• We operate like a startup in the rapidly-growing and changing DeFi ecosystem. In order to be successful, we must adapt to meet the current needs of the market. Good candidates will help our organization adapt; they are flexible problem solvers who are willing and able to jump on whatever the occasion demands.
• Most of our software development is open source. You can look at our github repositories to understand what we typically work on.
• Our success depends on external developers using our price feeds, so a great developer experience is critical to our success. Good candidates will be able to empathize with developers and build elegant, easy-to-use APIs to fit their needs. They will also be able to produce clear developer documentation for these APIs.
• We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package. Furthermore, where applicable, employees may be eligible for token allocations as part of Pyth Network’s employee incentive program.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate to design, build, and maintain on- and off-chain Pyth related applications, including smart contracts on multiple layer-1 runtimes, developer SDKs, frontends, and various utility programs.
• Work with business development, sales, and other functions to determine the long-term roadmap for the project. This is your chance to guide the future of finance.
• Mentor junior engineers -- lead by example and provide targeted feedback on software design and documentation to help team members grow.
• Assist the broader community of developers to build applications using Pyth Network data. Speak with developers over chat or at conferences to understand their needs. Develop SDKs, documentation, and other artifacts for this audience.

Skills You'll Need:

• Strong software engineering skills. Relevant experience building and operating large, safety-critical systems is a plus. Blockchain development experience is not strictly required for this position; we expect that most engineers will be able to learn on the job.
• Ability to work in a startup-like fast-paced environment to meet the demands of a rapidly-changing market.
• Familiarity or willingness to learn Rust, Solidity, Python, Typescript and C++.
• Excellent technical communication skills for interacting with non-technical team members and external developers.
• Ability to work with engineers of different experience levels. Technical leadership experience is a plus.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duties