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Senior Protocol Engineer

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🔥 15 minutes ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

đźź  Senior

⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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RootstockLabs

51 - 200 employees

đź’Ľ Consulting

📣 Marketing

₿ Crypto

Consulting • Marketing • Crypto

RootstockLabs is a pioneering company focused on building and expanding the capabilities of Bitcoin since 2017. The firm aims to provide developers with the necessary tools to innovate on Bitcoin's decentralized financial layer, Rootstock, which allows the creation of decentralized applications and services. With a commitment to making Bitcoin accessible for all, RootstockLabs enhances economic participation through technologies aimed at scaling Bitcoin, promoting secure and seamless financial transactions globally.

đź“‹ Description

• Design, build and maintain core protocol components: execution and consensus clients, sequencer, block derivation and batch submission to the parent chain • Work on the bridge and the proof system: deposits, withdrawals, cross-layer messages and state validation • Maintain a large open source codebase and make changes that are safe for a live network • Review code, write design documents and RFCs, and participate in architecture decisions • Test and debug a distributed system, including adversarial tests, local devnets, reorgs, node desynchronization and performance problems • Deliver and operate releases on public chains, including upgrades, hard forks, monitoring and incidents • Collaborate with Product, DevOps and Security to plan and ship each release

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 2 years in blockchain core or protocol development (node clients, consensus, etc.) • Solid production experience in mainstream languages (for example Go, Rust or Java) • Deep knowledge of blockchain internals and the EVM: consensus, P2P networking, state and storage, transaction lifecycle, JSON-RPC, etc. • Experience working effectively in large codebases you did not write • AI-assisted development is a core part of your work, while owning what you deliver • Autonomy and ownership: you help define the work, not only execute assigned tasks • Good English, spoken and written, since the team is international and remote

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and unique benefits designed to support your growth and well-being • 100% Remote Work from Europe & Latin America, with access to global CoWorking spaces • Paid vacation and sick leave days • Access to training programs, language courses, and learning sponsorship annually • Work with cutting-edge blockchain technology in a global, diverse team

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