Job Description

Gelato is an all-in-one Ethereum Rollup as a Service Platform built without limits. Designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable, Gelato rollups allow anyone to build and deploy their fully serviced Layer 2 chains on Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Celestia, and more, natively integrated with Web3’s favorite tools and services like Etherscan, The Graph, Pyth, Layer Zero and many more, launching a production-ready web3 development environment from the Genesis block.

What We Offer:

• Join one of the most technically robust teams in the crypto space, operating in a fully remote environment with our headquarters located in Zug, Switzerland.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of blockchain by contributing to the development of Gelato’s Rollup-As-A-Service Platform, trusted by leading projects like Lisk and Astar Network.
• Dive deep into cutting-edge Web3 technologies with exposure to Gelato’s premier Middleware Services stack, including Gelato Web3 Functions and Gelato Relay, foundational to top-tier applications such as MakerDAO, Connext, Abracadabra, and Pancakeswap.
• Earn and have a say with the GEL Token package, granting you a stake in the network’s future and a voice in the strategic direction of the project.
• Be backed by the best, with support from world-class investors including Dragonfly, IOSG, Galaxy Digital, ParaFi, Gnosis, and renowned figures like Stani Kulechov among others, securing your position at the forefront of the Web3 revolution.

Responsibilities:

• Master diverse Ethereum Rollup technologies including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and more, preparing for deployment, operation, debugging, and enhancement activities.
• Architect a high-impact decentralized network, focusing on scalability to manage a sequencer and RPC node infrastructure that processes millions of transactions and handles billions of RPC requests daily.
• Deepen your expertise in Zero Knowledge proofs, embracing the challenge of working with ZK-EVM stacks and pushing the boundaries of privacy and scalability in blockchain.
• Embrace full ownership of your code with a proactive approach to DevOps, ensuring robust deployment and real-time monitoring in collaboration with our Infrastructure team.
• Innovate within Rollup ecosystems, designing and implementing groundbreaking features like Decentralized Sequencing, Eigenlayer restaking, peer-to-peer messaging, threshold signatures, and trust-minimized off-chain computation.
• Enhance network security and resilience, creatively identifying potential attack vectors and failure points, establishing reproducible testing environments, and crafting strategic fixes.
• Develop and refine recovery protocols for our core node software, ensuring system robustness and rapid response to unforeseen events.
• Build and maintain distributed systems designed for exceptional reliability across diverse blockchain environments, setting new standards for uptime and performance.

Requirements:

• You can work with high autonomy from research, specification, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and patching your code.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Comfortable with both DevOps and Software Engineering.
• Extensive experience in shipping production-grade code that handles thousands of user interactions or transactions.
• In-depth knowledge of the Ethereum client architecture.
• A deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it.
• 5 years of experience with Golang/Rust/C++.
• 2 years of experience with DevOps - Terraform, Ansible, GCP/AWS, Docker, Kubernetes.
• 1-year of experience with Solidity.
• Strong experience with high throughput database systems.
• Strong experience with maintaining scalable microservices systems.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration.
• A profound interest in the Web3/crypto industry.
• Experience using crypto applications (e.g. Uniswap, Aave, etc.)

Not essential, but bonus points for:

• Knowledge of the inner workings of the EVM execution client, geth.
• Knowledge about the inner workings of various Ethereum rollup clients including but not limited to op-geth, understanding the underlying components, and having opinions about the various trade-offs of those components and platforms.
• Experience with p2p network technologies such as libp2p.

Technologies We Use and Teach:

• GETH and its various Rollup forks.
• Golang/Rust.
• Node.js/TypeScript.
• libp2p.
• RabbitMQ.
• Redis.
• GCP (less AWS).
• Ethers.js.
• Subgraphs.

Benefits:

• Work very autonomously.
• Generous GEL token package.
• Competitive Salary.
• Work together with one of the best technical teams on Ethereum.
• Build relationships with top teams that are already Gelato users, including MakerDAO, Optimism, Pancakeswap, and many more.
• Chance to travel the world to attend exciting events and connect with key players in this industry.
• Join amazing in-person offsites worldwide.