Senior Backend Engineer - Protocol Dev

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Eigen Labs

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Description

ABOUT EIGEN LABS • Eigen Labs is a dynamic and innovative team that provides crypto-economic security services for proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain modules, such as rollups, bridges, oracles, and dApps. • Eigen Labs is building the EigenLayer protocol to enable permissionless innovation on Ethereum. • With EigenLayer, blockchain services can rely on Ethereum for security, making it possible for anyone to build innovative blockchain modules without large upfront capital costs. • Eigen Labs is also building a data availability service on top of EigenLayer known as EigenDA, which will serve the critical need to provide critical liveness and security guarantees to scaling solutions such as rollups. • Our Core Protocol team is a small and dedicated unit that bridges the gap between protocol research and delivering production software. • We are product focused, constantly cutting through ambiguity to define protocol behaviors and ship them to end user segments for mass scale adoption. • This role is an opportunity to operate at the edges of innovation, invent new approaches based on raw research foundations and take on one of blockchains most unique problems.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., physics or mathematics) • 5+ years of professional software development experience w/ proven track record of delivering highly scalable products/features on distributed systems • 2+ years of full life cycle development with Go, Rust, C++ or similar language • REST and gRPC • PostgreSQL, Spark and/or Athena • Data pipelines/processing • DevOps (AWS) • Strong knowledge of the Ethereum protocol

Benefits

Employer-covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plans • 401k • Unlimited Paid Time Off • 12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave