Staff Protocol Engineer, EVM
Ava Labs is a blockchain technology company that builds products and services around Avalanche. It helps organizations launch scalable decentralized applications and custom blockchains, including managed blockchain infrastructure and a native digital-asset wallet.
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About Ava Labs, Inc.
Ava Labs, Inc. develops blockchain technology intended to help organizations bring business and finance applications onchain through Avalanche. Its offerings include AvaCloud, a managed service for launching custom Avalanche blockchains, and Core, an Avalanche-native digital asset wallet. The company serves developers, enterprises, financial organizations, ecosystem projects, and partners building scalable decentralized applications and blockchain infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will maintain and advance EVM-compatible chains and design and implement extensions on top of vanilla EVMs without breaking ecosystem compatibility. You will work on libevm and streaming asynchronous execution projects, implement decoupled consensus and execution, and contribute code that minimizes merge conflicts and scales execution. You will write and review idiomatic Go, deploy Solidity contracts to production, and reason about the full lifecycle of EVM transactions from wallet to opcode.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Go
- Independent Solidity experience and ability to deploy smart contracts to production
- Deep knowledge of EVM transaction lifecycle
- Ability to read and understand existing codebases and dive into others' code
- Attention to detail and producing clean maintainable code
- Experience with Geth internals (bonus)
Responsibilities
- Maintain and advance EVM-compatible chains
- Design and implement extensions on top of vanilla EVMs without breaking ecosystem compatibility
- Contribute to libevm development
- Implement streaming asynchronous execution and decoupled consensus and execution
- Write and maintain clean, maintainable Go code
- Deploy and validate Solidity smart contracts in production
