Protocol Engineer (base)

Protocol Engineer

Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen. We are looking for a Protocol Engineer to join the Base team to help us continue scaling in order to pave the way for billions of people coming onchain.

What you'll do:

• Hack on execution client internals (geth, reth, etc.) to extend capacity and capabilities of these systems well beyond current standards.
• Develop representative loads against which to rigorously benchmark performance.
• 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 and Danksharding.

What we look for in you:

• Some understanding of geth and/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 crypto-forward knowledge more generally.
• A track record of successful scaling of an existing high throughput system.
• Experience in software parallelization, including but not limited to optimistic concurrency and operation pipelining.
• Understanding of optimized approaches to Ethereum state management such as Erigon/Reth's flat DB, FirewoodDB, MonadDB, etc.
• Deep understanding of EVM internals, and (just-in-time) compilation expertise that might be applied to it.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Base also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Base salary range shown. Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits: $152,405—$179,300 USD.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity Base is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Base will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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AI Disclosure For select roles, Base is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description. For select roles, Base is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. The above pilots are for testing purposes and Base will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.

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