Description
Gelato is an all-in-one Ethereum Rollup as a Service Platform built without limits. Designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable, Gelato rollups allow anyone to build and deploy their fully serviced Layer 2 chains on Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Celestia and more at a pace natively integrated with Web3's favorite tools and services like Etherscan, The Graph, Pyth, Layer Zero and many more launching a production-ready web3 development environment from the Genesis block.
What we offer:
- Join one of the most technically robust teams in the crypto space, operating in a fully remote environment with our headquarters located in the crypto hub of Zug, Switzerland.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of blockchain, by contributing to the development of Gelato's Rollup-As-A-Service Platform, already trusted by leading projects like Lisk and Astar Network.
- Dive deep into cutting-edge Web3 technologies with exposure to Gelato's premier Middleware Services stack, including Gelato Web3 Functions and Gelato Relay, foundational to top-tier applications such as MakerDAO, Connext, Abracadabra, and Pancakeswap.
- Earn and have a say with the GEL Token package, granting you a stake in the network's future and a voice in the strategic direction of the project.
- Be backed by the best, with support from world-class investors including Dragonfly, IOSG, Galaxy Digital, ParaFi, Gnosis, and renowned figures like Stani Kulechov among others, securing your position at the forefront of the Web3 revolution.
Responsibilities:
- Master diverse Ethereum Rollup technologies including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and more, preparing for deployment, operation, debugging, and enhancement activities.
- Architect a high-impact decentralized network, focusing on scalability to manage a sequencer and RPC node infrastructure that processes millions of transactions and handles billions of RPC requests daily.
- Deepen your expertise in Zero Knowledge proofs, embracing the challenge of working with ZK-EVM stacks and pushing the boundaries of privacy and scalability in blockchain.
- Embrace full ownership of your code with a proactive approach to DevOps, ensuring robust deployment and real-time monitoring in collaboration with our Infrastructure team.
- Innovate within Rollup ecosystems, designing and implementing groundbreaking features like Decentralized Sequencing, Eigenlayer restaking, peer-to-peer messaging, threshold signatures, and trust-minimized off-chain computation.
- Enhance network security and resilience, creatively identifying potential attack vectors and failure points, establishing reproducible testing environments, and crafting strategic fixes.
- Develop and refine recovery protocols for our core node software, ensuring system robustness and rapid response to unforeseen events.
- Build and maintain distributed systems designed for exceptional reliability across diverse blockchain environments, setting new standards for uptime and performance.
Requirements
- You can work with high autonomy from research, spec, implementation, deployment, monitoring and patching your code
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- You are comfortable with both Software Engineering and DevOps
- You have extensive experience in shipping production-grade code that handles thousands of user interactions or transactions
- Extensive knowledge about the inner workings of the Ethereum client architecture and especially its EVM execution client geth
- Strong knowledge about the inner workings of the various Ethereum rollup clients including but not limited to op-geth, understand the underlying components, and have opinions about the various trade-offs of those components and platforms
- Have a deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it
- 8 years experience with Golang/Rust and Node.js/TypeScript
- 3 years and more experience with p2p network technologies such as libp2p
- 3 year experience with Web3 libraries and backend development (e.g. ethers.js, viem)
- 2 year experience with Solidity
- Strong experience with high throughput database systems
- Strong experience with maintaining scalable microservices systems
- Strong experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration
- Strong interest in Web3/crypto industry
- Experience using crypto applications (e.g. Uniswap, Aave, etc.)
- B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering or related technical field
Technologies we use and teach:
- GETH and its various Rollup forks
- Node.js/TypeScript
- Golang/Rust
- libp2p
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- GCP (less AWS)
- Ethers.js
- Subgraphs
Benefits
- Work very autonomously
- Generous GEL token package
- Competitive Salary
- Work together with one of the best technical teams on Ethereum
- Build relationships with top teams which are already Gelato users, including MakerDAO, Optimism, Pancakeswap and many more
- Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events and connect with key players in this industry
- Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world
About Gelato
Gelato is web3’s decentralized backend empowering builders to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware. Leading web3 projects rely on Gelato to power the execution of millions of transactions across DeFi, NFT and Gaming.
