The Senior Protocol Engineer will develop blockchain full-node software, enhance SDK performance, and work on new protocol features and optimizations.
Fuel is seeking a full-time Senior Protocol Engineer who will work at the bleeding edge of blockchain scalability R&D, designing and building robust blockchain full-node software powered by a next-generation virtual machine.
For this position, we need someone who is equally a thought leader as they are a senior technical professional. Someone who is opinionated, and isn't afraid to give feedback on our existing blockchain architecture and use their extraordinary talent to present new ideas.
You’ll get to:
- Working on new primitives and new transaction layouts to provide new features and ways to build optimal applications for the DApp developers.
- Enhance the performance and ergonomics of the SDK, keeping it current with the latest features supported by the blockchain.
- Solve legacy issues/problems existing in other blockchain projects
- Enabling extremely high throughput and parallelism
Areas of Responsibility
- Working on low-level improvements and optimisations of the Fuel VM
- Building new protocol features based on specifications changes including but not limited to bridging, fraud proofing, multidimensional pricing, and improving gas efficiency/economic modelling to increase throughput further
- Building secure and resilient distributed P2P systems
- Maintaining Fuel after the mainnet launch
Required Experience
- Solid track record of experience as a software engineer
- Strong proficiency in Rust (open-source contributions preferred)
- Deep understanding of virtual machines and/or blockchain node software
- Experience developing or designing :
- High-throughput applications
- P2P distributed systems
- Fraud-proving systems for optimistic and ZK rollups
- Decentralisation of the block production
Top Skills
Blockchain
P2P Distributed Systems
Rust
Sdk
Virtual Machines
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