Staff Protocol Engineer, EVM
Ava Labs is a blockchain technology company that helps organizations build scalable decentralized applications and custom blockchains on Avalanche. Its offerings include AvaCloud for managed custom blockchains and Core, an Avalanche-native digital asset wallet.
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About Ava Labs, Inc.
Ava Labs, Inc. develops blockchain technology and products for organizations building on the Avalanche network. The company provides AvaCloud, a managed service for launching custom blockchains, and Core, an Avalanche-native digital asset wallet. It focuses on business, finance, developers, enterprises, and the wider Avalanche ecosystem.
Skills
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
