Senior Backend Engineer (Platform)

August 9

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Flashbots

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Crypto • Blockchain • Security

Flashbots is a research and development organization focused on mitigating the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) in stateful blockchains, particularly Ethereum. The company employs a three-pronged approach to address MEV by bringing transparency, democratizing access to MEV revenue, and enabling sustainable distribution. Flashbots develops core infrastructure and ecosystem tooling to redefine the block production supply chain across blockchains. Their projects include Flashbots Protect, MEV-Share Node, Bundle Relay, and MEV-Boost Relay, all designed to protect transactions, maximize profit, and promote a decentralized blockchain ecosystem. Alongside product development, Flashbots conducts research on MEV market dynamics, blockchain design challenges, and operates as a research hub for future developments in the MEV ecosystem, furthering transparency and decentralization.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

₿ Crypto

🔐 Security

💰 Seed Round on 2020-01

📋 Description

• Flashbots is searching for senior backend infrastructure engineers to join our growing L2 team. In this role, you'll work on foundational infrastructure, tackle complex technical challenges, and work with industry leading experts across scaling, MEV, and DeFi. Your contributions will shape flagship products like Rollup-Boost while driving forward essential open-source innovations. • What You'll Do: Lead Infrastructure Development; Own Critical Infrastructure; Cross-functional Collaboration; Production Excellence; Open Source Leadership. • Who You Are: Experienced Infrastructure Engineer; Systems Programming Expert; Bonus points if you've contributed to execution layer/node projects like Geth, Reth, or rbuilder; Excellent Communicator; Impact-Driven. • Nice-to-Haves: Ethereum Infrastructure Experience; Open Source Contributions; Trusted Execution Environments; High-Performance Systems; Blockchain Ecosystem Knowledge. • Details that matter: Significantly above market rate equity compensation package; Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work; Attractive health coverage package for US employees; $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals; Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space; Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant; Remote working - you can work from anywhere in the world; Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events.

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced Infrastructure Engineer: 4-10 years of experience with production systems and deep understanding of infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps concepts at scale. • Systems Programming Expert: Strong skills in Rust or Go, with the ability to build high-performance, secure systems. • Bonus points if you've contributed to execution layer/node projects like Geth, Reth, or rbuilder. • Excellent Communicator: Whether working independently or leading cross-functional teams, you have exceptional communication and coordination skills for our remote-first, global environment. • Impact-Driven: You're motivated by solving hard problems that have asymmetric impact and strike at the core of crypto's infrastructure challenges. • Ethereum Infrastructure Experience: Experience running Ethereum infrastructure, such as clients, builders, rollup sequencers, or MEV-Boost components. • Open Source Contributions: Contributed to open-source infrastructure tooling or participated in protocol engineering discussions. • Trusted Execution Environments: Worked with TEEs, secure enclaves (like Intel TDX), or other trusted compute primitives - particularly relevant as we migrate our infrastructure to TEE-based systems. • High-Performance Systems: Built high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems (e.g., trading infrastructure, real-time data processing). • Blockchain Ecosystem Knowledge: Deep understanding of MEV, L2 scaling solutions, or DeFi protocols.

🏖️ Benefits

• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package • Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work • Attractive health coverage package for US employees • $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals • Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space • Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant • Remote working, while we have a preference for EU/US time zones, you can work from anywhere in the world • Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events