Remote Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Caldera, a company building software to simplify the launch of high-performance blockchains (rollups), as a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer. You will contribute to the Metalayer, a blockchain interoperability solution, focusing on designing and implementing smart contracts and off-chain infrastructure for cross-chain interactions. This role requires experience building DeFi protocols, cross-chain bridges, or MEV infrastructure. You will work with Go, Rust, and Solidity, building secure and efficient systems. Caldera offers competitive pay, equity, and full benefits, with the option to work in-person or remotely in San Francisco or New York.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of engineering experience, including at least 2 years of experience developing high-availability, distributed systems
• Have a deep knowledge of Go, Rust or similar languages
• Have built complex Ethereum “dapps” with Solidity or Yul
• Are comfortable building systems that secure user’s funds
• Love writing fast, well-optimized, well-tested, clean code
• Are confident with performance optimization, identifying bottlenecks and scalability concerns

Responsibilities

• Help architect the caldera Metalayer, a high-performance, stack-agnostic blockchain interop solution
• Develop our reference relayer/solver using languages like Go, Rust, and Solidity
• Write efficient and secure EVM smart contracts in solidity that are used both to operate the interop system and to be consumed by other developers
• Drive the technical direction, establish roadmaps, communicate and collaborate with internal and external partners to help Caldera win

Preferred Qualifications

• Have implemented MEV/intents solvers
• Have implemented or used a consensus algorithm (eg. Paxos/Raft, pBFT, tendermint, ...) in the past
• Understand tradeoffs in the blockchain interop space and how advancements like ZK, preconfirmations, fast finality impact design considerations and differ
• Have significant open-source contributions, especially in blockchain clients/node software, databases, networking, or programming languages/frameworks

Benefits

• Competitive pay and equity
• Full benefits
• Work in-person or remotely