Senior Staff Engineer

Polymer Labs was founded with the mission to create a neutral, open, permissionless base layer for the new internet. Polymer is at the forefront of developing Ethereum’s Interoperability Hub, building products that will enable new levels of security, user experience, and functionality that will support the mass adoption of the decentralized web. Our talented team comprises top talents from both web2 and web3, dedicated to addressing the intricate challenges within web3’s interoperability infrastructure. 
Learn More About What We Do
The infrastructure stack for building decentralized systems is in the process of forming. As the scale and complexity of these systems and protocols grows, interoperability becomes an increasingly critical problem to solve. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how the decentralized web is connected.
The Senior Staff Engineer will apply their experience in web2 on both OSS work around IBC (https://ibcprotocol.org/) and the core Polymer protocol.
Web3 and blockchain experience is explicitly not required but is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Work on solving complex distributed systems problems in a byzantine setting 
• Help to design and implement a secure, scalable, and decentralized inter-blockchain transport protocol
• Build multi-chain observer infrastructure and tooling to support Polymer's interoperability solution
• Contribute to the IBC protocol specification (https://ibcprotocol.org/)

What You Will Achieve

• In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Polymer Lab’s core protocol and begin contributing to documentation and testing of the product. You will begin learning about the blockchain interoperability ecosystem and underlying technology; specifically, Polymer's interoperability solution
• Within 2 months, you will be fully integrated into the team and start taking ownership of various components of Polymer’s tech stack. Success looks like delivering a working testnet/mainnet with ability to reliably and securely support cross-chain messaging at large scale, and drive IBC adoption through innovative contributions to the protocol.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• The ability to independently execute on a project given a loosely defined scope and roadmap
• Pre-existing experience on how to build high scale systems and experience with building sophisticated application services
• Ability to manage time and focus on the critical path of a project
• Experience with Go, Rust, or TypescriptExperience developing and or operating distributed systems at scale
• Experience with Linux and open source communities
• Curiosity and drive to learn new things and build solutions from the ground up

Benefits

• Competitive salary, token grants, incentive compensation
• Employer subsidized, Medical, dental and vision group plans 
• Untracked, Manager Approved PTO
• Engaging offsite gatherings and team-building activities to make a remote-first workforce feel connected
• Opportunity to shape and contribute to industry-disrupting infrastructure

Polymer Labs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.