Senior Backend Engineer (AVS)
Remote, Seattle, Washington, United States
ABOUT EIGEN LABS
Eigen Labs is more than just a leading name in the blockchain space. Weāre the driving force behind EigenLayer, a game-changing solution that revolutionizes crypto-economic security. Imagine a world where blockchain projects break free from the shackles of the scaling trilemma and capital limitations.Ā
Weāre building a platform to deliver security to novel distributed applications. In today's blockchain ecosystem, each service is typically secured by its own tokenized trust-network. With EigenLayer, services can build upon the established security of the Ethereum trust network, unlocking untold scalability while maintaining security and decentralization.
THE ROLE
Our Actively Validated Services (AVS) team is scaling up as we seek out innovative thinkers and engineers to join us on our mission to hyperscale Ethereum. Active Validated Services are decentralized and verifiable software as a service products built on EigenLayer. As a member of this team, you will play a critical role in ideating, developing and delivering tools/services created to streamline developerās paths towards building fast, cheap and reliable verifiability into their products. If you enjoy being challenged by the complexity of new primitives and working on problems for a diverse segment of technical users, we want to hear from you!Ā
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Leverage your skills and knowledge of distributed systems to create services and tools that power the worldās most innovative crypto projects. Examples include but are not limited to; observability/monitoring systems to optimize performance, health and staking info between AVS and Operators, SDKs for a diverse range of SaaS categories (Rollups, Coprocessors, zkProofs, TEEs, etc.), and services for Oracles.
- Guide developer/builder communities through the creation and management lifecycle of AVS product builds. This includes education, service launches and post launch operations
- Research new concepts and implement new ideas/frameworks to optimize developerās technical journey based on feedback from product, customer support and quality teams.
- Proactively contribute to sprint/roadmap planning, processes improvement and product suite strategy
- Engage in the team design/code reviews, standups, and agile development processes
WHAT YOU WILL BRING
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., physics or mathematics)
- 5+ years of backend distributed systems experience
- 2+ years of full life cycle development with Go, Rust or C++
- Prior history of delivering service/tooling for scalable and fault tolerant P2P networks in a production setting
- Strong understanding of operational ā¦
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12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave 401(k) Dental Employer-covered medical Medical, Dental, and Vision plans Unlimited Paid Time Off Vision plans
SkillsBackend Development Blockchain Blockchain Technology C++ Distributed Systems Ethereum Go Monitoring Monitoring Systems Observability Rust SDKs Smart Contracts
Experience5 years
EducationB.S. in Computer Science Computer Science Mathematics Physics
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