Staff Protocol Engineer, Interoperability

Summary

Join Ava Labs' world-class blockchain development team and contribute to the development of innovative cross-chain transfer and interoperability protocols. The Interoperability team focuses on enabling seamless and secure communication between blockchains, including connecting Avalanche to external ecosystems like Ethereum and Bitcoin. You will design, optimize, and implement these protocols, contributing to core projects like Avalanche Interchain Messaging and Avalanche Bridges. Collaboration with the open-source community and other internal teams is essential. This role involves production system management, on-call rotation, and providing input to the long-term technical roadmap. Ava Labs offers a dynamic environment within an early-stage Web3 company.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of hands on blockchain, consensus protocols, distributed systems, applied cryptography, or similar systems
• Golang or C++ experience (Solidity is a big plus)
• Strong understanding of blockchains and distributed systems (fee structures, transaction formats & consensus mechanisms)
• Experience managing production systems
• Experience being a technical team leader
• Hands on experience with cloud deployments (AWS and/or Azure)

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and implement novel cross-chain transfer and interoperability protocols
• Contribute to core technical projects of the Avalanche Interchain Messaging and the Avalanche Bridges, from planning through release
• Engage with our open-source community
• Coordinate technical efforts across different teams to design extensible and flexible solutions to manage future challenges
• Support our Infrastructure team with new releases and production monitoring (on-call rotation)
• Provide input to the long term technical roadmap of the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cross-chain protocols and smart contract development is a plus
• Cryptography is a plus