Software Engineer, Aptos Labs
Blockchain Developer Infrastructure
$160-260k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Building Layer 1 blockchain
Job no longer available
Building Layer 1 blockchain
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160-260k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong appreciation for automation and tooling
- Experience building release or performance tooling and automation
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Previous experience building/scaling infrastructure
- Nice to have: data visualization and observability tooling experience
- Be able to proactively manage prioritization of work and deliver work with great quality and influence the broader team in creating leverage
- Passion to initiate and lead projects to completion in a fast-paced, ever-changing, start-up environment
What the job involves
- Developer Productivity - Build efficient CI/CD, test frameworks, benchmarking, and debugging tools to enable faster iterations
- Reliability - replicate real-world network scenarios and simulate failures. Enable stronger guarantees on the system SLAs and prevent breakage due to changes
- Efficiency - build benchmarks and provide tooling that identifies low-level system efficiency opportunities. Enable one-click load tests to ensure consistency of throughput and latency under realistic workloads. The team at Aptos Labs is on a mission to build the highest-throughput blockchain and will require innovative frameworks to ensure the performance of the system
- Build and enhance the test frameworks that enable module-level testing. Isolate different components of the system and run tests that ensure individual module success (for example, consensus, networking, state-sync etc)
- Enable CI/CD pipelines that ensure all the changes are thoroughly tested and minimize the chances of regressions
- Enable one-click load tests that can spin up 100s or nodes globally with various configurations. Simulate real-world network conditions and chaos testing
- Build tooling to replay transactions from mainnet/ testnet to a smaller test environment
- Build automation and visibility into the system test frameworks
Our take
Despite launching in just 2021, Aptos has soared to Unicorn status following an impressive funding round that saw major participation from players like PayPal Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. It's the company’s promise to build a layer 1 blockchain that has attracted all this attention as it outperforms competitors on critical metrics like scaleability and speed.
Aptos is created by the team behind Facebook’s recently shuttered cryptocurrency endeavor Diem (previously Libra), who left the company when Diem sold its tech assets to Silvergate Capital. Now, Silvergate Capital is itself an investor in the new project. This goes to show the confidence the Aptos' team commands, and the increasingly mainstream industry appetite for a blockchain that can sustain major operations.
Developers from companies like Binance, Anchorage, and Coinbase are already part of Aptos. This talent, in combination with 2024 VC funding and its remarkable 2022 Series A, will fuel the team’s progress and is a hugely promising start for the young venture.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
110% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2022
$150m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$200m
SEED
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work coverage
- Health insurance coverage
- Equipment of your choice
- Unlimited Vacation time
- Competitive Salary
- Stock options
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Mo Shaikh
(Co-Founder)Previously held various analyst positions at companies like KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, BlackRock, and BCG. Subsequently directed strategy at ConsenSys alongside founding and leading Meridio, then worked on strategic partnerships at Novi (Meta).
Avery Ching
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo!, Facebook, and then for the crypto platform team at Novi (Meta). Has also spent over a decade as VP of Apache Giraph.
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