Protocol Engineer

Role Overview

• Hack on execution client internals (geth, reth, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities of these systems well beyond current standards.
• Develop representative loads against which to rigorously benchmark performance.
• Improve OP stack through efforts such as reducing the footprint of data that needs to be made L1-available.
• Helping with important external scaling efforts such as PeerDAS and Danksharding.

Requirements

• Some understanding of geth and/or reth internals (deep understanding of either a huge plus).
• Familiarity with database internals and high performance database systems.
• Understanding of the Ethereum scaling roadmap, and crypto-forward knowledge more generally.
• A track record of successful scaling of an existing high throughput system.
• Experience in software parallelization, including but not limited to optimistic concurrency and operation pipelining (nice to have).
• Understanding of optimized approaches to Ethereum state management such as Erigon/Reth’s flat DB, FirewoodDB, MonadDB, etc. (nice to have).
• Deep understanding of EVM internals, and (just-in-time) compilation expertise that might be applied to it (nice to have).

Benefits

• bonus eligibility
• equity eligibility
• benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))