Protocol Engineer

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Description

• Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. • We need your help to make that happen. • We believe that the onchain platform is the most important builder platform since the internet (“online”). • Base is built on Optimism’s open-source OP Stack. • We are looking for a strong protocol engineer to join the Base team to help us continue scaling in order to pave the way for billions of people coming onchain.

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. • Nice to haves: • Experience in software parallelization, including but not limited to optimistic concurrency and operation pipelining. • Understanding of optimized approaches to Ethereum state management such as Erigon/Reth’s flat DB, FirewoodDB, MonadDB, etc. • Deep understanding of EVM internals, and (just-in-time) compilation expertise that might be applied to it. • Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Benefits

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