Ava Labs · 12 hours ago
Staff Protocol Engineer, EVM
Brooklyn, NY
Contract
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$253K/yr - $269K/yrAva Labs is a pioneering company in the blockchain space, focused on redefining asset digitization through their innovative Avalanche platform. The Staff Protocol Engineer will be responsible for advancing the EVM for the Avalanche blockchain, including maintaining EVM-compatible chains and designing extensions to enhance ecosystem compatibility.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyDecentralized Finance (DeFi)FinTechInternetNon-Fungible Token (NFT)Smart Contracts
Responsibilities
Maintain and advance Avalanche’s EVM-compatible chains
Design and implement paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs, without breaking ecosystem compatibility
Here are some specific examples of projects you will contribute to: libevm (repo): the EVM as a library; a backwards-compatible fork of geth with injectable configuration directives to minimise merge conflicts
Streaming Asynchronous Execution (spec / talk / repo): decoupled consensus and execution, allowing for always-on, concurrent execution without forced dormancy
Qualification
Required
Highly proficient in Golang; the language and its primitives are second-nature to you, and you are comfortable mentoring others
Independent Solidity experience; you are comfortable deploying a smart contract to production
Deep knowledge of the life of an EVM transaction, from wallet to opcode
A self-starter with insatiable curiosity, combined with being comfortable diving into someone else's code to understand how it works
Meticulous attention to detail and an appreciation for clean, maintainable code
You feel at home in a hacker culture
Preferred
Demonstrable experience with geth internals are a bonus
Company
Ava Labs
AVA is a blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility.
Founded in 2018
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$290M2021-09-16Initial Coin Offering· $230M
2020-07-22Initial Coin Offering· $42M
2020-06-25Initial Coin Offering· $12M
Leadership Team
Lydia Chiu
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
John Wu
President
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