Senior Blockchain Engineer – Polygon Avail

What is Polygon?

is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development


Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more
Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 37,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, 140M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured

Responsibilities

• Design, Implement and launch new versions of blockchain nodes and maintain them
• Work with the Research team to find optimized solutions and implement them
• Work on networking protocol, consensus systems, systems throughput optimizations, and scalability
• Building and evolving blockchain-based systems, proactively addressing security aspects of systems that are always online and always under attack
• Lead the team of smart blockchain engineers and guide them whenever required
• Coach and mentor other engineers in a constant learning culture

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working with backend systems, of which at least 2 years in Rust
• 2+ years of experience working with Rust, Substrate projects, or fork of it
  
• Good understanding of Substrate architecture, runtime, pallets and other concepts
• Good understanding of networking protocols and distributed network
• Good understanding of blockchain-related cryptography like a public key, BLS signatures, etc
• Understanding of blockchain bridges, their fundamentals and architectures
• Bonus: Experience working with low-level database programming & systems optimization
• Bonus: Experience working with consensus protocols

Benefits

Work from anywhere (Remote first)Flexible working hoursFlexible vacation policyCompetitive SalaryPolygon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status
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