About the Job

📍We’re hiring a Protocol Engineer to serve as a foundational member of a new Protocol team, dedicated to keeping Scroll at the very forefront of blockchain and Ethereum innovation. 📍This hire will own and lead projects that ensure Scroll continues to differentiate itself, and pushes the boundaries of zkRollup technology. 📍The Protocol Engineer will design and implement features in production, and will contribute to and have a massive impact upon the broader Ethereum ecosystem. 📍You will work at the forefront of the industry, on massively complex problems, like decentralizing the sequencer. 📍You will do it alongside other deeply driven technical minds, in a culture defined by and dedicated to autonomy, ownership and openness. 📍And you will have the chance to collaborate externally with thinkers and researchers in academia and other leading blockchain organizations. 📍This is a fully remote job.

Requirements

📍Demonstrated ability to design and implement new, production-ready, open-source blockchain protocol projects using Golang or Rust and good understanding of Solidity. For instance, by having contributed to Ethereum, authored and implemented EIPs, published/commented on ethresear.ch, pushed PRs to nodes like geth or Lighthouse, EF fellowship, and/or written academic papers, etc. 📍You take ownership, and operate proactively, independently, and with openness and transparency. 📍Confident but humble and low ego, your excitement over learning complex concepts motivates and inspires others. 📍You enjoy collaborating with others and excel at communicating with them, asynchronously and across cultures. You speak and write (documentation and specs, as well as on Slack), clearly and concisely. 📍Excellent coding standards (distributed systems, open source, correct and performant code, good developer practices, effective use of Notion/GitHub, performance profiling, optimization, correct + robust + maintainable code).