Remote Senior Storage Engineer

Summary

Join Ava Labs, a world-class blockchain development team, and contribute to the development of Firewood, a state-of-the-art compaction-less database. You will be a primary contributor to our blockchain-optimized storage engine, assisting in readying Firewood for production. This role requires demonstrated capability in software storage, experience with embedded database systems, and expertise in blockchain fundamentals. Ideal candidates possess a passion for open-source development, code quality, and creating valuable projects. Ava Labs offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to be a pioneer in Web3 technology.

Requirements

• Demonstrated capability in the software storage area (open source code or published work is a bonus)
• Experience working on embedded database systems, especially those optimized for key storage
• Knowledge of data serialization formats for efficient storage
• Expert blockchain fundamentals and understanding of state synchronizations
• Deep understanding of trie structures and their operations
• Rust AND Golang, C++, or C

Responsibilities

• Work on our state-of-the-art compaction-less database, Firewood
• Be a primary contributor to our blockchain-optimized storage engine that can be used to launch high-performance L1s on Avalanche
• Assist the team in readying Firewood (Alpha testing) for production

Preferred Qualifications

• You believe in a future where blockchain technologies make the world a more fair and free place for everyone
• You have the desire to work on open-source code and engage with the community—you wish to work together with other talented contributors instead of working alone
• You are a coder—you implement demos and proofs-of-concept before writing multi-page technical documents
• You create and find projects that provide value—you don’t need to wait for someone to tell you what to research or work on. We hire awesome engineers to tell us what we should build, not the other way around
• You have an obsession with code quality and performance—you ship code when it is ready, not as soon as it passes unit tests

Benefits

• Salary Range: $190,400 to $238,000
• Remote work