Flashbots is hiring a
Protocol Engineer

Summary

Flashbots is seeking a Protocol Engineer with 4-10 years of experience in production systems, skilled in Rust or Go, to contribute to the development and scaling of Flashbots products. The role involves navigating nuanced tradeoffs between latency, privacy, fault tolerance, and incentives.

Requirements

• 4-10 years of experience in production systems
• Skilled in Rust or Go
• Proven experience in distributed systems
• Strong OSS blockchain projects/contributions in Ethereum projects

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and scaling of Flashbots products, specifically SUAVE and SUAPPS
• Collaborate with the best mechanism design researchers in the industry to build products at the intersection of incentives and distributed systems
• Maintain and enhance protocol services and developer tools within the Flashbots ecosystem
• Write and manage technical documentation and diagrams for public and internal use
• Participate actively in community and partner with leading crypto projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ethereum, Geth, or other Ethereum clients
• Adjacent infrastructure (e.g., indexers or p2p overlays)
• Worked with Solidity or other smart contract languages

Benefits

• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
• Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
• Attractive health coverage package for US employees
• $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
• Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
• Help save the world by ensuring crypto remains decentralized, permissionless and censorship-resistant
• Remote working - work from anywhere in the world
• Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events