About the role:

Ava Labs is looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Group. This team is responsible for maintaining and advancing the EVM for the Avalanche blockchain and its ecosystem. You will maintain and advance Avalanche's EVM-compatible chains and design paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs, without breaking ecosystem compatibility.

Responsibilities:

📍Maintain and advance Avalanche's EVM-compatible chains. 📍Design and implement paradigm-shifting extensions on top of vanilla EVMs, without breaking ecosystem compatibility. 📍Contribute to libevm: the EVM as a library; a backwards-compatible fork of geth with injectable configuration directives to minimise merge conflicts. 📍Contribute to Streaming Asynchronous Execution: decoupled consensus and execution, allowing for always-on, concurrent execution without forced dormancy.

Requirements:

📍A self-starter with insatiable curiosity, comfortable diving into someone else's code to understand how it works. You treat the code as the source of truth and are able to discern nuances from there. 📍Meticulous attention to detail and an appreciation for clean, maintainable code. 📍Comfortable in a hacker culture — you understand the rules of the system primarily so you can bend them. 📍Highly proficient in Golang; the language and its primitives are second-nature to you, and you are comfortable mentoring others. 📍Independent Solidity experience; comfortable deploying a smart contract to production. 📍Deep knowledge of the life of an EVM transaction, from wallet to opcode.

Nice-to-have: 📍Demonstrable experience with geth internals.

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