Staff Protocol Engineer, EVM

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Platform Engineering Group. This team is responsible for maintaining and advancing the EVM for the Avalanche blockchain and its ecosystem.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

1. Maintain and advance Avalanche’s EVM-compatible chains.
2. Design and implement paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs, without breaking ecosystem compatibility.
3. Here are some specific examples of projects you will contribute to:
4. libevm (repo): the EVM as a library; a backwards-compatible fork of geth with injectable configuration directives to minimise merge conflicts.
5. Streaming Asynchronous Execution (spec / talk / repo): decoupled consensus and execution, allowing for always-on, concurrent execution without forced dormancy.

WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT

1. A self-starter with insatiable curiosity, combined with being comfortable diving into someone else’s code to understand how it works. You treat the code as the source of truth and are able to discern nuances from there.
2. Meticulous attention to detail and an appreciation for clean, maintainable code. You create software as much for the end user as for the love of the craft.
3. You feel at home in a hacker culture. You believe that creativity is not just limited to the arts. You understand the rules of the system primarily so you can bend them.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

1. Highly proficient in Golang; the language and its primitives are second-nature to you, and you are comfortable mentoring others.
2. Independent Solidity experience; you are comfortable deploying a smart contract to production.
3. Deep knowledge of the life of an EVM transaction, from wallet to opcode.

Demonstrable experience with geth internals are a bonus.

Salary Range: $253,479 to $269,321