Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain - Base

Optimism; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering team dedicated to scaling the onchain platform for billions of users. As a protocol engineer, you'll work on cutting-edge technologies, enhancing execution client internals and performance benchmarks. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the future of decentralized systems, collaborating with a passionate team that values innovation and impact. If you're excited about tackling the challenges of scaling high-throughput systems and have a strong foundation in Ethereum technologies, this position is a perfect fit for you. Embrace the chance to make a significant difference in the crypto economy!

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Target bonus

Target equity

Qualifications

• Understanding of geth and/or reth internals is essential.
• Experience with high performance database systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of Ethereum scaling roadmap is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Hack on execution client internals to extend capacity and capabilities.
• Develop benchmarks to rigorously test performance.
• Improve OP stack and assist with external scaling efforts.

Skills

Geth internals

Reth internals

Database internals

Ethereum scaling roadmap

High throughput system scaling

Software parallelization

EVM internals

Job 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”). We believe that the onchain platform should be open source, free to use, and globally available. And we believe that in order to make it really work, we need all hands on deck, working together to scale in a secure, decentralized, easy-to-use way.

At Base, we live by our Stay Based values: we do the right thing, work hard, stay optimistic, prioritize the team, and push creative boundaries—all while building the future of onchain. We value a Zone 3+ work ethic, where our team rises to the challenge, embraces hard weeks, and makes small to significant personal tradeoffs when necessary to drive impact and innovation.

Base is incubated within Coinbase and plans to progressively decentralize in the years ahead. We believe that decentralization is critical to creating an open, global crypto economy that is accessible to everyone.

Base is built on Optimism’s open-source OP Stack. We’re joining as the second Core Dev team working on the OP Stack to ensure it’s a public good available to everyone; and contributing a portion of sequencer revenue to funding public goods.

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.

What you'll do:

• 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.

What we look for in you:

• 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.

Job #: GBBLE05

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Pay Range: $180,625 — $212,500 USD

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