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 hours
Flexible vacation policy
Competitive Salary
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