Role overview
Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.
We believe that the onchain platform is the most important builder platform since the internet (âonlineâ). We believe that the onchain platform should be open source, free to use, and globally available. And we believe that in order to make it really work, we need all hands on deck, working together to scale in a secure, decentralized, easy-to-use way.
At Base, we live by our Stay Based values: we do the right thing, work hard, stay optimistic, prioritize the team, and push creative boundariesâall while building the future of onchain. We value a Zone 3+ work ethic, where our team rises to the challenge, embraces hard weeks, and makes small to significant personal tradeoffs when necessary to drive impact and innovation.
What you'll work on
- Lead the research and development of new initiatives for improving and scaling Baseâs throughput.
- Hack on both execution and consensus client internals (geth, reth, lighthouse, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities of these systems well beyond current standards.
- Improve OP stack through efforts such as reducing the footprint of data that needs to be made L1-available.
- Helping with important external scaling efforts such as PeerDAS
- Drive the technical direction, establish roadmaps, communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams and the wider Ethereum ecosystem to define requirements, and ensure alignment with project goals while taking a proactive approach.
What we're looking for
- You have at least 10+ years of experience in software engineering, and a background of research in scaling, parallelization, protocols, or distributed databases
- A track record of proven leadership around successfully scaling an existing high throughput system.
- Some understanding of EVM and client software, such as geth or reth internals (deep understanding of either a huge plus).
- Familiarity with database internals and high performance database systems.
- Understanding of the Ethereum scaling roadmap, and onchain-forward knowledge more generally.
- Youâre familiar with current trends and best practices in architecture including security, performance, and usability.
- You have executive communication skills to work crossfunctionally and collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and product managers.