Summary

Golang 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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:

1. Master diverse Ethereum Rollup technologies including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and more, preparing for deployment, operation, debugging, and enhancement activities.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Enhance network security and resilience, creatively identifying potential attack vectors and failure points, establishing reproducible testing environments, and crafting strategic fixes.
7. Develop and refine recovery protocols for our core node software, ensuring system robustness and rapid response to unforeseen events.
8. Build and maintain distributed systems designed for exceptional reliability across diverse blockchain environments, setting new standards for uptime and performance.

Requirements

1. You can work with high autonomy from research, spec, implementation, deployment, monitoring and patching your code
2. Strong written and verbal English communication skills
3. You are comfortable with both DevOps and Software Engineering
4. You have extensive experience in shipping production-grade code that handles thousands of user interactions or transactions
5. Extensive knowledge about the inner workings of the Ethereum client architecture
6. Have a deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it
7. 5 years experience with Golang/Rust/C++
8. 2 years experience with DevOps - Terraform, Ansible, GCP/AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
9. 1 year experience with Solidity
10. Strong experience with high throughput database systems
11. Strong experience with maintaining scalable microservices systems
12. Strong experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration
13. Strong interest in Web3/crypto industry 
14. Experience using crypto applications (e.g. Uniswap, Aave, etc.) 

Not essential, but big bonus points:

1. Knowledge of the inner workings of the EVM execution client geth
2. 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
3. Experience with p2p network technologies such as libp2p

Technologies we use and teach:

1. GETH and its various Rollup forks
2. Golang/Rust
3. Node.js/TypeScript
4. libp2p
5. RabbitMQ
6. Redis
7. GCP (less AWS)
8. Ethers.js
9. Subgraphs

Benefits

1. Work very autonomously
2. Generous GEL token package
3. Competitive Salary
4. Work together with one of the best technical teams on Ethereum
5. Build relationships with top teams which are already Gelato users, including MakerDAO, Optimism, Pancakeswap and many more
6. Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events and connect with key players in this industry
7. Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world

Skills

• AWS
• C++
• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Development
• Rust
• Software Engineering
• Solidity
• SQL
• TypeScript