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Senior Protocol Engineer
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Rootstock Labs is hiring a Senior Protocol Engineer for its Rollup team, which is building and scaling a Bitcoin-secured Layer 2 rollup on Rootstock. The team is small and senior, with high individual ownership and a voice in technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain core components, including execution and consensus clients, the sequencer, block derivation, and batch submission to the parent chain.
- Work on the bridge and proof system: deposits, withdrawals, cross-layer messages, and state validation.
- Maintain a large open-source codebase and make changes that are safe for a live network.
- Review code, write design docs and RFCs, and take part in architecture decisions.
- Test and debug a distributed system, from unit tests to adversarial scenarios, reorgs, and performance issues.
- Deliver and operate releases on public chains, including upgrades, hard forks, and incident response.
- Work with Product, DevOps, and Security to plan and ship releases.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering, including 2+ years in blockchain core or protocol development.
- Production experience in a mainstream language such as Go, Rust, or Java.
- Deep knowledge of blockchain internals and the EVM.
- Experience working in large codebases written by others.
- Heavy use of AI-assisted development, with ownership of the output.
- Autonomy and ownership in defining work; good spoken and written English.
- Nice to have: Go/Rust, Ethereum L2 rollups (optimistic or ZK), rollup design (data availability, finality), open-source contributions to blockchain clients, fault or validity proofs, Bitcoin and EVM-compatible chains, Docker, cloud, Prometheus and Grafana, Solidity review.
Additional Information
Fully remote role with work from Europe and Latin America supported. Compensation is described as competitive; no figure is stated.
Perks and Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- 100% remote work
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Learning sponsorship and language courses
- Work on blockchain projects with a global team
The Company: IOV Labs
RootstockLabs is a purpose driven company building infrastructure that extends the capabilities of Bitcoin.
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IOV Labs is looking for
People working in
Engineering >
Who specialize in
Backend
With these skills
Go, Rust, EVM, Rollups, Consensus, Bitcoin L2
Willing to work
Full-time
With an experience level
Senior
Location
Remote • Remote (Europe and Latin America)
Capacity
40 hours/week
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