Senior Protocol Engineer, Caldera
Rollups
$175-275k
+ Equity
Modular blockchain platform for launching rollups
Open for applications
Modular blockchain platform for launching rollups
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$175-275k
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to build apps in Web3 by making it easy for anyone to launch performant, customizable layer-two blockchains.
Role
Who you are
- Have 4+ years of engineering experience, including at least 1 year of experience working with EVM-related protocols (dApps, Rollups, Solvers, etc)
- Have a deep knowledge of Go, Rust or similar languages
- Have built Ethereum “dapps” with Solidity or Yul
- Have experience developing and deploying distributed systems
- Love writing fast, well-optimized, well-tested, clean code
- Are great at solving complex design, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput production systems
- Are confident with performance optimization, identifying bottlenecks and scalability concerns
Desirable
- Are up-to-date with Ethereum scaling solutions such as sidechains or rollups
- Have implemented or used a consensus algorithm (eg. Paxos/Raft, pBFT, tendermint, ...) in the past
- Have an understanding of cryptography primitives, such as hash functions or digital signatures
- Have significant open-source contributions, especially in blockchain clients/node software, databases, networking, or programming languages/frameworks
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an incredible software engineer to help us build the future of blockchain scalability
- This is an ideal opportunity for an engineer who is already passionate about tackling problems in blockchain scalability, or looking to break into the blockchain engineering space
- Help architect the blockchain nodes that comprises the backbone of our software offering. You’ll be working on the cutting edge of blockchain scaling, building new kinds of L2s
- Develop improvements to rollup stacks like OP, zksync, and Arbitrum Orbit, making them higher throughput and more reliable
- Create systems that ensure zero-downtime network upgrades of high TPS chains caldera has in production, which secure hundreds of millions of dollars in value
- Write efficient and secure EVM smart contracts in solidity
- Drive the technical direction, establish roadmaps, communicate and collaborate with internal and external partners to help Caldera win
Our take
As the interest in blockchain technology rises, the growth in network usage and on-chain apps can cause network congestion or even outages, lowering performance for users. Caldera (formerly Constellation Labs) makes it easy to launch performant, customizable blockchain rollups and is developing the world's rollup-as-a-service platform.
Just as the internet is run on millions of servers worldwide, Web3 will outgrow its current set of blockchains. This means thousands of projects will opt to launch their dedicated blockchains so they can own their ecosystem, scale without limit, and provide superior user experiences. Caldera enables developers to “roll up” their transactions into a single piece of data to be submitted to the mainnet, then, those transactions are removed from the mainnet, creating space and increasing processing speeds.
Recently, Caldera completed a significant funding round, marking a significant milestone for the company. With this new capital, it plans to expand its team and further develop its Metalayer initiative for a promising future in the rapidly growing blockchain space.
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Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Katz
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Warp, Fractal, and others. Former Co-Director of TreeHacks.
Parker Jou
(Co-Founder)Previously worked in Machine Learning Research at Waymo, and as a Software Engineer at NVIDIA and Samsung Electronics.
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