Senior Solutions Engineer, Celestia
Fibre optic performance for millisecond markets
Job no longer available
Fibre optic performance for millisecond markets
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable fibre optic performance with millisecond latency.
Role
Who you are
- A strong communicator with excellent technical writing and presentation skills, especially in a remote team setting
- Possess solid knowledge of coding, technical principles, and technical architectures, with at least 5 years of real-world experience as a developer or engineer
- Proficient in Golang and Solidity, with experience in Rust being a plus
- Experienced with Ethereum and building dApps, and excited about developer tooling like Gitpod, Glitch, IDEs (Remix, etc.)
- Passionate about supporting external engineering partners who want to build on our platform and ensuring their success
- Experienced with open-source software development tools like Github
- While experience in the blockchain space is preferred – having general excitement about web3 and modular blockchain technology is a must!
What the job involves
- Oversee various projects and contribute to writing and reviewing code across different repositories
- You will join calls with our partners and support them with debugging on various channels and ensure their success
- Provide feedback to our engineering, product, and other cross-functional teams to ensure community feedback is incorporated into our backlog
- Develop demos that integrate rollups with example applications likeNFTs, DeFi, and Gaming
- Explore new execution environments beyond the EVM and Cosmos-SDK
- You will be reporting to the Head of Devrel
Our take
Blockchains have traditionally been built as "monolithic" systems, where execution, consensus and data availability are bundled together in a single chain. That model, used by networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum, has proven secure but difficult to scale without trade-offs. Celestia takes a different approach. Rather than trying to be another all-in-one chain, it focuses purely on data availability and consensus, allowing developers to plug in their own execution environments. Simply put, it provides the foundation layer so others can build custom blockchains on top without starting from scratch.
Since launching its mainnet, Celestia has moved from theory to infrastructure and now acts as a live data availability layer for rollups and other modular chains, positioning itself as core plumbing for the next generation of Web3 applications. By separating responsibilities across layers, it aims to make blockchains more scalable and flexible, while still maintaining decentralisation. So instead of competing directly with major chains on transaction feeds alone, Celestia competes on architecture, offering builders a toolkit rather than a finished product.
The bet is that the future of crypto won't be one dominant chain, but many specialized ones. If that modular vision continues to gain traction, Celestia could become a foundational layer powering dozens (or hundreds) of networks behind the scenes. The challenge now isn't proving the concept, but driving sustained adoption in an increasingly competitive data availability market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2022
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.5m
Company benefits
- Employment benefits
- 4 weeks annual vaction
- Meaningful long-term compensation package
- Flexible and remote work environment
Leadership
Mustafa Al-Bassam
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Advisor at Nym and Secure Trading. Prior to this was co-founder and Researcher at Chainspace until its acquisition by Facebook.
Ismail Khoffi
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Informal Systems and Interchain Foundation. Before this, they were an External Evaluation Expert for the European Commission.
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