Senior Rust Engineer

Summary

Join Phylax Systems, a company securing the crypto industry, as a Senior Rust Engineer. You will design, develop, and maintain high-performance, security-focused features for our on-chain protocol, extending the EVM and improving its performance. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, emphasizing fast iteration cycles and robust testing. Contribute innovative ideas to the team roadmap and consistently raise the bar for others. This role requires proven experience in shipping and maintaining complex Rust code, deep understanding of Rust, Ethereum ecosystem (especially EVM), and low-level system programming. You will be part of a founding team working on a challenging web3 problem, building from the ground up and making a deep impact on the industry.

Requirements

• Proven track record of shipping & maintaining complex and performant Rust code to production
• A deep understanding of the Rust language and ecosystem
• Deep understanding of the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly EVM and the Execution layer
• Engineers with a strong sense of ownership, a passion to improve existing systems, and the ability to work autonomously and solve problems independently
• A collaborative and self-driven individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Strong background in low-level system programming and relevant optimizations, such as parallel computing architectures, profiling, and memory management

Responsibilities

• Design, drive and own complex features throughout the whole lifecycle with strong focus on performance and benchmarking. Particularly in extending the EVM with security-focussed precompiles or improving its performance with parallel processing optimizations
• Collaborate & communicate effectively across teams
• Emphasis on fast iteration cycles driven by performance benchmarking and robust testing practices
• Ability to context-switch between delivering features, supporting bug fixing, and reviewing work
• Share innovative ideas to contribute to the team roadmap and consistently raise the bar for others with impactful contributions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in either of these: MEV infrastructure (e.g, Block Builders), HFT systems, Real-time data processing, database design, Ethereum client development (preferably Reth/Revm)
• Knowledge of Blockchain architectures (particularly Ethereum Rollups, Ethereum Mainnet) and their various components (consensus, networking, etc.)
• Familiarity with System Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and observability tools for debugging or optimizing the systems you develop
• Familiarity with Database optimizations, lock-free algorithms, concurrent data structures, and SIMD or other CPU-level optimizations

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Health Insurance
• Major industry conferences and events covered
• Remote-first, with a hub in NYC
• New MacBook