Fuel is seeking a full-time Senior Protocol Engineer who will work at the bleeding edge of blockchain scalability R&D, designing and building robust blockchain full-node software powered by a next-generation virtual machine.
For this position, we need someone who is equally a thought leader as they are a senior technical professional. Someone who is opinionated, and isn't afraid to give feedback on our existing blockchain architecture and use their extraordinary talent to present new ideas.
You’ll get to:
Working on new primitives and new transaction layouts to provide new features and ways to build optimal applications for the DApp developers.Enhance the performance and ergonomics of the SDK, keeping it current with the latest features supported by the blockchain.Solve legacy issues/problems existing in other blockchain projectsEnabling extremely high throughput and parallelism
Areas of Responsibility
Working on low-level improvements and optimisations of the Fuel VMBuilding new protocol features based on specifications changes including but not limited to bridging, fraud proofing, multidimensional pricing, and improving gas efficiency/economic modelling to increase throughput furtherBuilding secure and resilient distributed P2P systemsMaintaining Fuel after the mainnet launch
Required Experience
Solid track record of experience as a software engineerStrong proficiency in Rust (open-source contributions preferred)Deep understanding of virtual machines and/or blockchain node softwareExperience developing or designing :
- High-throughput applications
- P2P distributed systems
- Fraud-proving systems for optimistic and ZK rollups
- Decentralisation of the block production