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Senior Backend Engineer, Protocol

Remote, Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

The Role

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. No one has done anything this ambitious on Ethereum to date. If you’re motivated by innovation, enjoy figuring things out, and looking for an opportunity to grow quickly… we’d love to hear from you. 

What You Will Do

  • Ramp up on protocol design knowledge, understand the edges of smart contracts and off-chain systems, and proactively drive/contribute to core off-chain infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with the team to reduce On-chain complexity as we migrate computation off-chain while keeping it stable, secure, and as trustless as possible. 
  • Building clients that our end users can easily run.
  • Develop systems for Off-chain reliability ensuring data is properly managed through the computation lifecycle on the platform by verifying off-chain views are properly synced and can be materialized from on-chain data.
  • Ideate, design and develop new features.
  • Engage with developer communities as a source of knowledge for issues submitted.
  • Define best practices for our backend guild across Eigen Labs, working cross functionally to share resources and identify common components/services while delivering mission critical and highly scalable functionality. 

What You Will Bring

  • 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

Bonus

  • Smart Contracts (Solidity or similar) 
  • Deep Ethereum Knowledge
  • Prior experience in DeFi or security

The target base salary for this role will range between $190,000 to $225,000. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors at the point in time of offer. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Eigen Labs provides various employee benefits, including:

US Benefits

  • Competitive salary and non-cash compensation (tokens and equity)
  • World class benefits package (medical/dental/vision)
  • Remote work set up stipend
  • Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment
  • Flexible time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan + company match
  • Monthly wellness benefit
  • Yearly off-sites
  • Paid parental leave

Equal opportunity employment

There's one more, very important thing. We are an equal opportunity employer. We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We take care of each other to create an inclusive work environment where we love to come to work every day. We hope you can join us.

 

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