2025 Infrastructure and Security Intern - NYC

Who We Are:

At Galaxy we are building products and services to help the world invest in economic progress. We believe crypto and blockchain innovations will permeate and improve all aspects of our global economy. Our vision is a society where value and ownership flow as freely as information. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals access and navigate the crypto economy. As one of the most well-capitalized and trusted companies in the industry, we provide platform solutions custom-made for a digitally native ecosystem across three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Our offerings include, amongst others, trading, lending, strategic advisory services, institutional-grade investment solutions across passive, active and venture strategies, proprietary bitcoin mining and hosting services, network validator services, and the development of enterprise custodial technology. Galaxy’s CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz leads a team of crypto enthusiasts, and institutional veterans focused on the future of finance and Web3. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with global offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

Additional information about the Company's businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com.

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.

About the Galaxy Summer Internship Program:

The Galaxy NYC Summer Internship Program is an immersive and exciting, nine-week experience taking place on-site in our New York HQ office. During the nine weeks, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on, practical work experience on our Infrastructure and Security team. We're looking for both an Infrastructure and Security intern.

As an Infrastructure intern focused on Cloud, you will play a key role in managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure of Galaxy’s data centers or cloud environments. Depending on your team assignment, you may assist in tasks ranging from configuration of hardware and software, as well as working with various blockchains around the world.

As a Security intern, you'll work with cybersecurity to improve our protection against supply chain risk and be tasks with implementing a project to integrate signals from our various cybersecurity solutions and produce and enrich dashboard and/or alerts regarding critical risks. The signals could pertain to the composition of our various application and services artefacts, external services and parties used in the context of DeFi and blockchain architectures, or others. In this task, you will work closely with product security engineers, as well as other SMEs of the technology function. Our team's product security engineers all come from a software development background and will be able to help you design and drive the implementation, including any coding or automation part.

In addition to learning on the job, Galaxy interns participate in professional development programming, fun social events, and networking opportunities with senior leaders. 

Program Dates: June 9th – August 8th, 2025

What You’ll Do:

• Deploy/Maintain/Configure Amazon resources, including EC2 running blockchain validators
• Research and Engineering of potential new blockchains of interest to Galaxy
• Continue improvement of security monitoring, as well as security processes
• Hands on with AWS as well as baremetal on-prem resources
• With guidance from ProdSec engineers, evaluate how the available security solutions, and additional external sources, are needed for the project
• Propose design to the team, work collaboratively with ProdSec engineers to enrich the design and perform threat modeling
• Implement and follow secure development lifecycle
• Technologies you will use: Terraform, Ansible, python, bash

What We’re Looking For:

• Pursuing a a degree in Computer Science, Electronic or Computer Engineering, or Cybersecurity 
• Desire to take initiative and carry a project from start to finish
• Ability to work in SCRUM/Agile environment
• Programming experience in Python, Java or other advanced programming languages
• Someone who can take initiative, and carry a project from start to finish
• Passion for cybersecurity and building technology solutions
• Inquisitive and keen to learn

Eligibility Requirements:

• Undergraduate or master’s students graduating between December 2025 and June 2026
• Eligible master’s students must have fewer than two years of relevant, full-time work experience
• Students enrolled in PhD, MBA, or JD programs are not eligible to apply

Interns are classified as non-exempt employees and will be paid a rate of $55/hr.

Here are some of the industry-leading benefits of interning at Galaxy:

• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Free daily snacks and weekly lunches
• Smart, entrepreneurial and fun colleagues  
• Employee Resource Groups

*Benefits may vary based on location. 

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital or partnership or caregiver status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview, please contact  

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