Protocol Engineer - San Francisco
1 day ago
Job description
Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.
We are looking for a Protocol Engineer to join the Base team to help us continue scaling in order to pave the way for billions of people coming onchain.
What you'll do:
Hack on execution client internals (geth, reth, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities of these systems well beyond current standards.
Improve OP stack through efforts such as reducing the footprint of data that needs to be made L1-available.
Helping with important external scaling efforts such as PeerDAS and Danksharding.
What we look for in you:
Some understanding of geth and/or reth internals (deep understanding of either a huge plus).
Familiarity with database internals and high performance database systems.
Understanding of the Ethereum scaling roadmap, and crypto-forward knowledge more generally.
A track record of successful scaling of an existing high throughput system.
Nice to haves:
Experience in software parallelization, including but not limited to optimistic concurrency and operation pipelining.
Understanding of optimized approaches to Ethereum state management such as Erigon/Reth's flat DB, FirewoodDB, MonadDB, etc.
Deep understanding of EVM internals, and (just-in-time) compilation expertise that might be applied to it.
Pay Transparency Notice:
Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below.
Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Base salary range shown.Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits:
$152,405—$179,300 USD
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
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