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Built for security, customization, and scalability, Conduit delivers production-grade reliability paired with deep blockchain expertise-so teams can stay focused on what matters most: their product.\nBacked by a $37M Series A led by Paradigm and Haun Ventures, Conduit is a remote-first company with offices in San Francisco and New York City for those who prefer a hybrid environment. Our team brings experience from companies like Meta, Amazon, Aave, Compound, and Paradigm.\nWe’re building the infrastructure layer that will power on-chain finance for the next decade.\nIf you want to build something people rely on every day, join us.\nAbout the Role\nConduit's Control Plane team owns the coordination layer of the Conduit Platform: the services that provision, update, and retire everything customers run on us - rollups, RPC nodes, indexing, and whatever comes next - meter what those products consume, and give both customers and our own team a trustworthy picture of what is actually running.\nThe core of it is a control loop. We're building a lifecycle service that observes what's actually running and reconciles toward the desired state, rather than writing a status field and hoping it stays true. It treats each product as opaque: its shape and configuration come from schema read at runtime, so onboarding a new product type is a description, not a pull request.\nIf you've worked on Kubernetes controllers, provisioning APIs, deployment systems, or any platform where the hard part is keeping many systems consistent with one another, this will feel familiar. It's a web2 stack in service of web3 technology - we don't require blockchain experience, and people on the team picked up the domain here.\nThree things worth knowing up front:\nA small, senior team with a large charter. Control Plane is small and entirely senior - this layer is critical enough that everyone on it operates independently. The surface area - lifecycle, usage reporting, the customer-facing API, internal tooling - is wider than the team can build at once, which is why we spent this year defining what it owns and what it doesn't. The upside is unusual influence: your design decisions become the architecture rather than one input among many.\n\nThe mission is automation. Plenty of platform operations still have a human in the loop. Turning those into automated, self-serve paths is the work - and because the first users of what you build are inside the company, the feedback loop is measured in hours, not quarters.\n\nA lot of this work is decoupling before extending. These systems grew organically and carry real coupling. We'd rather pay that down than keep building on top of it.\n\nThe team optimizes for correctness and reliability first. Performance matters, but this isn't a role about making one component marginally faster - it's about making sure a change in one system doesn't quietly break three others. Nearly everything here is an integration problem, so breadth of systems judgment counts for more than depth in any one specialty.\nWhat you'll work on\nLifecycle as a service. A single, well-defined interface for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring what customers run, backed by reconciliation against observed state rather than best-effort writes.\n\nSchema-driven, product-agnostic design. Moving product-specific knowledge out of code and into contracts the service interprets at runtime, so products and the control plane can evolve independently.\n\nUsage and consumption reporting. A product-agnostic path for metering what customers consume and reporting it to the systems that bill for it. We don't build the billing engine - but consumption data is money, and correctness here is unforgiving.\n\nInternal tooling. Admin surfaces that let our own teams operate the platform through the control plane's abstractions. You'll own the services and interfaces behind them, partnering with our UI engineers on the surface itself.\n\nResponsibilities\nOwn the interfaces other teams build against - lifecycle operations, usage reporting, schema contracts - including how they version and migrate as they evolve\n\nIntegrate systems that don't fit together on their own, including third-party billing and partner integrations\n\nDrive cross-functional coordination when the control plane is the shared point of integration\n\nImprove the tooling and process that keep the platform maintainable and reliable\n\nParticipate in the team's oncall rotation, covering the control plane services you own rather than the customer data path\n\nQualifications\nRequired\n5+ years building and operating production backend systems\n\nSystems breadth: you reason across several interacting systems at once - how they fail, where the seams belong, how they stay consistent\n\nExperience designing APIs and contracts that other teams depend on - versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation\n\nComfort with asynchronous and event-driven systems: idempotency, retries, partial failure, eventual consistency\n\nExperience debugging complex issues across the stack - networking, performance, data integrity - and good instincts for where security boundaries belong\n\nSelf-directed: comfortable with ambiguity, able to take a loosely-defined problem and drive it to done\n\nAble to become productive in an unfamiliar language quickly - our services are Go today\n\nBonus\nProduction Go experience\n\nBuilt reconciliation- or controller-pattern systems (Kubernetes operators, Terraform providers, provisioning or deployment control planes)\n\nWorked with schema- or config-as-data systems (CUE, JSON Schema, protobuf) and the realities of schema evolution and migration\n\nMetering, usage reporting, or other systems where correctness has financial consequences\n\nBuilt internal tools for expert operators\n\nCrypto / web3 background - genuinely not required\n\nWe think you'll find this work really exciting if you:\nAre drawn to questions like: how do we know what's actually running? How do we make a change safely when several systems have to agree? How do we let products evolve without the control plane needing to know?\n\nWould rather build the abstraction that makes the next ten integrations easy than hand-wire the eleventh\n\nWant to work somewhere that writes real design docs - arguing a position, naming the tradeoff, and disagreeing in writing before the code gets written\n\nAre excited about building robust, large-scale, always-on services\n\nLove building and iterating on new technologies in a fast-paced environment\n\nOur tech stack\nA flavor of technologies in use:\nLanguages: Go (primary), Python\n\nServices: gRPC / protobuf, GCP Pub/Sub, River (Postgres job queue), Watermill\n\nData: Postgres, Redis, GCS\n\nSchema & config: CUE, YAML\n\nRuntime we integrate with: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GCP\n\nWhile we value experience with these technologies, we're primarily looking for engineers with strong systems judgment and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.\nConduit does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7428,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Blockchain Infrastructure"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-16T03:09:03Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":157500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.77,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":30,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:2","urgency","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/conduit-software-engineer-control-plane","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/conduit-software-engineer-control-plane.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T23:04:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4821,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":175568},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=175568"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fconduit-software-engineer-control-plane"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fconduit-software-engineer-control-plane"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fconduit-software-engineer-control-plane"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/conduit-software-engineer-control-plane\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fconduit-software-engineer-control-plane"}]}