Manta Ray Labs is hiring a
Senior Blockchain Engineer

Summary

The job is for a DevOps Engineer specializing in Ethereum Rollup technologies like Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, etc., with responsibilities including mastering diverse tech, innovating, ensuring network security, and developing recovery protocols. Requirements include high autonomy, comfort with both software engineering and DevOps, extensive production-grade code experience, deep understanding of the EVM and Ethereum rollup clients, 3 years experience with Golang/Rust and Node.js/TypeScript, and a B.S. or higher in computer science.

Requirements

• You can work with high autonomy from research, spec, implementation, deployment, monitoring and patching your code
• You are comfortable with both Software Engineering and DevOps
• You have extensive experience in shipping production-grade code that handles thousands of user interactions or transactions
• Extensive knowledge about the inner workings of the Ethereum client architecture and especially its EVM execution client geth
• Strong knowledge about the inner workings of the various Ethereum rollup clients including but not limited to op-geth, understand the underlying components, and have opinions about the various trade-offs of those components and platforms
• Have a deep understanding of the EVM and how external tooling integrates with it
• 3 years experience with Golang/Rust and Node.js/TypeScript
• Experience using crypto applications (e.g. Uniswap, Aave, etc.)
• B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering or related technical field

Responsibilities

• Master diverse Ethereum Rollup technologies including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and more, preparing for deployment, operation, debugging, and enhancement activities
• 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
• 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
• 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