Your future is NEAR

About The Role:

Near One engineering team is supporting development of the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. We focus on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize visions of NEAR Protocol.

We are growing our engineering team that develops the Blockchain protocol specification and its implementation. You will be working with complex concurrent systems, complicated state machines, and novel algorithms powering NEAR Protocol blockchain.

You will own various components and drive critical decisions throughout their life cycles, including architecture, implementation, and maintenance. You will collaborate with highly knowledgeable and skilled colleagues who are passionate about solving hard problems that can disrupt the industry.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaboration with a fully distributed team around the world.
• Architecture and implementation of complex blockchain components in Rust.
• End-to-end ownership of critical blockchain components.
• Design/proposal of new blockchain protocol changes.
• Performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements of Blockchain.
• Design and practical implementation of privacy preserving technologies for Blockchain including ZK and TEE.
• Open source community contribution by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase and participating in community events.
• Participating in the on-call rotation.

What We're Looking For:

• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Agility to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details.
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism.
• Meticulousness to lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal.
• Good communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with internals of NEAR protocol or other blockchains.

We'd Love If You Have:

• Professional experience with Rust alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go.
• Practical experience of taking ZK proof systems and turning them into a product, e.g. ZK rollups, private smart contracts, etc.
• Experience in building a blockchain smart contract or running a node in a blockchain network.
• Knowledge of cryptography.
• Experience with networks or operating systems.

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

Locations: Remote.