Staff Protocol Engineer

November 12

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BASE Foundation

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Sustainable energy • Climate change solutions • Energy efficiency • Financing solutions • Renewable energy

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2001

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🌐 Web 3

Description

• Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. • Join the Base Protocols team to enable and accelerate the success of Base. • Work on the software and infrastructure systems that power all aspects of the Base L2 chain. • Contribute to the open source OP-Stack, perform research and development for scaling both Ethereum L1 and L2’s. • Maintain the critical server infrastructure for chain components, and enable new possibilities with ZK systems. • Lead the research and development of new initiatives for improving and scaling Base. • Hack on both execution and consensus client internals (geth, reth, lighthouse, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities of these systems well beyond current standards. • Improve OP stack through efforts such as reducing the footprint of data that needs to be made L1-available. • Help with important external scaling efforts such as PeerDAS and Danksharding. • Drive technical direction, establish roadmaps, communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, and ensure alignment with project goals while taking a proactive approach. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

Requirements

• Some understanding of EVM and client software, such as geth 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 onchain-forward knowledge more generally. • A track record of proven leadership around successfully scaling an existing high throughput system. • 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. • Understanding of compilers and JIT compilation. • Deep Rust and/or Go experience • Experience writing Solidity smart contracts • Active contributions to open source onchain projects • 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)).