Senior Rust Engineer (Miden)

Responsibilities

• Implement and harden the sequencer and the client (Mempool, consensus, backups)
• Create a testing infrastructure for the sequencer and the client
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to members of the team

Requirements

• Deep familiarity with Rust, including a high comfort level with advanced concepts such as generics, lifetimes, memory management, concurrency etc
• Sound knowledge of networking primitives in Rust, asynchronous execution, and client / server architectures and trade-offs
• Familiarity with Ethereum, rollup protocols and trade-offs, and attack vectors
• Familiarity with advanced benchmarking and testing frameworks (prop-testing, fuzzing)
• Experience working on open-ended problems without supervision
• Proven ability to teach and mentor less experienced team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with zero knowledge proof-based blockchain systems
• Fundamentals of cryptography, e.g., hash functions and finite fields
• Experience with open-source software
• Experience with privacy mechanisms

Benefits

• Remote first global workforce
• Industry leading Medical, Dental and Vision health insurance*
• Company matching 401k with 3% match*
• $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (life-time max)
• $200 Annual Book Allowance Program
• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
• Flexible Time Off
• 1 company wide wellness Friday day off per quarter
• Company issued laptop
• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

About the Company Polygon Labs is a software development company building and developing a network of aggregated blockchains via the AggLayer, secured by Ethereum. As public infrastructure, the AggLayer will bring together user bases and liquidity for any connected chain, and leverage Ethereum as a settlement layer. Polygon Labs has also contributed to the core development of several widely-adopted scaling protocols and tools for launching blockchains, including Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Miden, which is in development as well as Polygon CDK.