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Senior Protocol Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Senior

📍 Location: USA

💸 Salary: 180625.0 - 212500.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Cryptocurrency/Blockchain

🏢 Company: Base.org Careers Page

🪄 Skills: Ethereum

Requirements:
  • Some understanding of geth and/or reth internals.
  • Familiarity with database internals and high performance database systems.
  • Understanding of the Ethereum scaling roadmap and general crypto knowledge.
  • A track record of successful scaling of existing high throughput systems.
Responsibilities:
  • Hack on execution client internals (geth, reth, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities.
  • Develop representative loads for rigorous performance benchmarking.
  • Improve OP Stack by reducing data footprint for L1 availability.
  • Assist with external scaling efforts like PeerDAS and Danksharding.
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