Distributed Systems Engineer, Flashbots
+ Equity
Ethereum research and development firm
Open for applications
Ethereum research and development firm
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To mitigate the negative externalities of current Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) extraction techniques and to avoid the existential risks MEV could cause to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience with Ethereum node clients or adjacent software (indexer, p2p overlay)
- Worked with Solidity or other smart contract languages
- Experience in modeling distributed systems using libraries like TLA+
- Strong OSS blockchain projects/contributions in Ethereum projects
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- Fast-track your application: contact michael@flashbots.net with links to relevant PRs or meaningful public contributions
Our take
Flashbots is a research and development organization that is mitigating against the miner-extractable value (MEV) problem, striving for a transparent and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction to reinforce the Ethereum blockchain ideals.
Flashbots, whilst connecting searchers and mining pools together, stands out for not using private contracts and arrangements. Instead, it is an open participation system where any searcher or mining pool can join. This is considered to be more beneficial to the network, rather than a few private entities dominating, because it still allows for competition.
The company is seeing active progression, having raised $60 million for its Suave, a new vision for a kind of blockchain that could transform the process by which chain-operators earn value across different networks. With this, the company is becoming a genuinely exciting disrupter to an ever-changing industry. However, mid-2023 has seen major resignations in Flashbots leadership team following its substantial funding, down to the company's compliance with US Treasury sanctions concerning censorship and tighter regulations in the Ethereum industry. These changes were followed by a strategic hiring push but nevertheless, the future direction of the company remains a considerable unknown.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- 🌍 Fully remote with flexible hours in a flat hierarchy
- 🧠 Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
- 💸 Competitive salary + significantly above market rate equity package
- ✈️ Regular team on-sites to locations like Morocco, Amsterdam and Costa Rica
- 🌴Unlimited PTO with no approval needed on 3 days or less vacations
- 🍏 Attractive health cover package for US employee
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Leadership
Stephane Gosselin
(Co-Founder)Also General Manager and Board Member at Flashbots
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