Senior Protocol Engineer
RootstockLabs
Remote, South Africa
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Protocol Engineer to join our Rollup team. This is a hands-on, full-time engineering role focused on building and scaling our Bitcoin-secured Layer 2 rollup on Rootstock. This is a protocol role: you’ll work directly on the chain on topics such as sequencing, block derivation, consensus and finality, bridge and proof system. You will join a small team of senior engineers with high ownership. You will design, build, test and operate core components, and you will take part in the technical decisions of the project.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build and maintain core protocol components: execution and consensus clients, sequencer, block derivation and batch submission to the parent chain.
Work on the bridge and the proof system: deposits, withdrawals, cross-layer messages and state validation.
Maintain a large open source codebase: learn how its parts work together, make changes that are safe for a live network, and keep the code easy to evolve.
Review code, write design docs and RFCs, and take part in architecture decisions.
Test and debug a distributed system: unit to adversarial tests, local devnets, reorgs, node desync and...
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