Caldera · 3 months ago
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer (Metalayer)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expCaldera is a company focused on building scalable blockchain experiences. They are seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to design and implement smart contracts and off-chain infrastructure for their Metalayer product, aimed at enhancing blockchain interoperability for a network of rollups and dapp developers.
BlockchainInformation TechnologySoftware EngineeringWeb3
Responsibilities
Help architect the caldera Metalayer, a high-performance, stack-agnostic blockchain interop solution
Develop our reference relayer/solver using languages like Go, Rust, and Solidity
Write efficient and secure EVM smart contracts in solidity that are used both to operate the interop system and to be consumed by other developers
Drive the technical direction, establish roadmaps, communicate and collaborate with internal and external partners to help Caldera win
Qualification
Required
5+ years of engineering experience, including at least 2 years of experience developing high-availability, distributed systems
Deep knowledge of Go, Rust or similar languages
Built complex Ethereum 'dapps' with Solidity or Yul
Comfortable building systems that secure user's funds
Love writing fast, well-optimized, well-tested, clean code
Confident with performance optimization, identifying bottlenecks and scalability concerns
Preferred
Implemented MEV/intents solvers
Implemented or used a consensus algorithm (eg. Paxos/Raft, pBFT, tendermint, ...) in the past
Understand tradeoffs in the blockchain interop space and how advancements like ZK, preconfirmations, fast finality impact design considerations and differ
Significant open-source contributions, especially in blockchain clients/node software, databases, networking, or programming languages/frameworks
Benefits
Competitive pay
Equity
Full benefits
Company
Caldera
Caldera offers a no-code Web3 infrastructure platform to help developers spin up layer-2 blockchains.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$24MKey Investors
Founders Fund
2024-07-24Series A· $15M
2023-02-13Undisclosed· $9M
Leadership Team
Matthew Katz
CEO, Co-Founder
Parker Jou
Cofounder and CTO
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