Software Engineer - Campus (Intern & New Grad)

All roles are in the Ellipsis Labs office in New York City.

• Build and maintain scalable production services with mentorship from senior engineers. Today we handle thousands of QPS; future systems need to scale by an order of magnitude.
• Implement and extend performance tooling and observability, profiling at the micro- and nanosecond level where it matters.
• Contribute to ambitious initiatives (e.g., real-time data indexing at scale) from specification and design through implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance, owning scoped projects end-to-end.

Qualifications

Required

• Hands-on experience building software (courses, personal projects, research, or internships) in Rust, C++, C, or another low-level language; you write clear, tested code
• Solid Unix/Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, files, basic networking)
• Strong CS foundations (data structures, concurrency, systems thinking)
• Ability to make informed trade-offs with business context; high agency and a team-first mindset
• Curiosity about DeFi (prior domain experience not required)

Preferred

• Experience or coursework in distributed systems, networking, OS, compilers, or low-latency systems.
• Familiarity with blockchain technology (Solana a plus).
• Interest or experience in quant trading/fintech.
• Rust proficiency.