Distributed Systems Engineer, Flashbots

• This role is ideal for a proactive problem solver with a penchant for deep technical challenges, strong communication skills, and a builder mentality
• 4-10 years of hands-on experience in building production-grade distributed systems, skilled in Rust or Go
• Proven track record in designing scalable, high-throughput architectures
• Extensive experience in end-to-end testing of consensus or distributed system protocols
• Strong ability to navigate and optimize the trade-offs between availability, consistency, and latency
• Deep understanding of fault-tolerant systems, including Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) and other relevant models
• You have contributed to open-source work/projects or participate in public technical discourse, such as contributing to protocol specifications
• Capable of independently leading projects and unifying cross-functional teams through exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• You bias towards finding problems to solve, rather than waiting for issues to pile up
• Flexible, accountable, and focused on high-impact solutions
• T-Shaped skills

Desirable

• Flashbots is searching for a Distributed Systems Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our distributed block-building system
• You'll be helping contribute to a cutting-edge distributed system, navigating nuanced trade-offs between latency, privacy, fault tolerance, and incentives
• Contribute to the development and scaling of Flashbots products, specifically TEE Block Builder, SUAVE and SUAPPS
• Design, build and optimize distributed and fault-tolerant systems
• Develop and refine networking layers and P2P protocols to ensure high performance and reliability
• Collaborate with the best mechanism design researchers in the industry to build products at the intersection of incentives and distributed systems
• Maintain and enhance protocol services and developer tools within the Flashbots ecosystem
• Write and manage technical documentation and diagrams for public and internal use
• Participate actively in community and partner with leading crypto projects
• Write high-quality, well-tested code that meets production-grade standards

• Fast-track your application: contact michael@flashbots.net with links to relevant PRs or meaningful public contributions

• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
• Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
• Attractive health coverage package for US employees
• $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
• Remote working - work from anywhere in the world
• Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events

Total funding: $60m

Flashbots is a research and development organization that is mitigating the miner-extractable value (MEV) problem, striving for a transparent and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction to reinforce the Ethereum blockchain ideals.