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Senior Backend/DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience with running commodity hardware and servers at scale
  • Experience running blockchain nodes and modifying blockchain node software
  • Proficient in 2 of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, Javascript/Typescript, Python
  • Multiple prior contributions to open source node software or open source DeFi protocols

Responsibilities

  • Design blockchain architecture in 2 of the specified programming languages
  • Contribute novel ideas to developing unique blockspace markets and blockchain software
  • Design modular node components for data-availability and multi-VM execution environments
  • Run blockchain nodes and modify blockchain node software

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Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size2 - 10

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Job description

This is a remote position.

A trusted decentralized stablecoin platform built on Ethereum that offers a suite of financial products, including its own native stablecoin, a liquid staking solution, and an array of other financial instruments (including lending, automated market-making, and liquid staking) and also allows its users to mint and redeem their stablecoins at any time is opening a Senior Backend/DevOps Engineer (Remote - Anywhere in the world).

Their innovative versatile DeFi protocol issues decentralized stablecoins and has 3 subprotocols within it that integrate its own stablecoins. This project was initiated with the vision of creating a stablecoin that blends the characteristics of collateralized and algorithmic models, aiming to bring stability and efficiency to the DeFi sector and the platform has now positioned itself as a multifaceted player in the decentralized finance landscape.


Size : 12 people

Location : Remote, anywhere in the world, HQ based in the USA


MISSIONS :

 

  • Design blockchain architecture in 2 of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, Javascript/Typescript, Python.
  • Contribute novel ideas to developing unique blockspace markets and blockchain software never seen before.
  • Design modular node components for data-availability (DA) and multi-VM execution environments.
  • Design unique mechanisms/protocols at the blockchain level (like mempool searchers/MEV and advanced DeFi dapps)
  • Run commodity hardware and servers at scale
  • Run blockchain nodes and modifying blockchain node software


Profil

  • Experience with running commodity hardware and servers at scale such as managing multiple instances on AWS, OVH, Azure etc.
  • Experience running blockchain nodes and modifying blockchain node software, particularly geth, OP stack, and any zk rollup.
  • Multiple prior contributions to open source node software or open source DeFi protocols that are of sufficient complexity (with publicly verifiable contributions).
  • Proficient in 2 of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, Javascript/Typescript, Python.

Mandatory points :

1 - MUST be self directed and have initiative, given basic criteria for a task. (The employer is flexible with execution and design).
2 - Willing to work Pacific Time give or take a few hours


Nice to Have :

  • Work experience at a “Top” crypto organization: Coinbase, Uniswap, Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, Lido, Cosmos, Binance, Kraken, Polygon etc etc - ie a well known crypto company with a lot of users building highly scalable systems with a lot of data.
  • Experience designing unique mechanisms/protocols at the blockchain level (like mempool searchers/MEV and advanced DeFi dapps).
  • Prior experience running/staking ETH consensus forming nodes directly.

Informations contractuelles

  • Fully remote position, live and work from anywhere in the world
  • Strong independence and freedom to build and lead your part of the protocol
  • Competitive salary with career growth to executive roles possible
  • Generous token allocations and other tokens/bonuses/perks



Salary: 110 to 365k

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