Protocol Engineer

Pagoda is shepherding a future where NEAR becomes the blockchain operating system.

Overview

The Protocol Engineering team at Pagoda is responsible for the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. 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.

What you will do

• Collaborate with a fully distributed team around the world.
• Design/propose new blockchain protocol changes.
• Work on performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements of Blockchain.
• Contribute to open source community by collaborating with external contributors and participating in community events.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Agility to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code.
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with internals of NEAR protocol or other blockchains.
• Professional experience with Rust alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go.
• Experience in building a blockchain smart contract or running a node in a blockchain network.
• Knowledge of cryptography.
• Experience with networks or operating systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Encouraged 20 days of flexible PTO per year, plus your local holidays
• Wellness weeks – 2 weeks of paid company-wide closures
• 100% Paid medical, dental and vision, AD&D and life insurance for US employees, including 85% coverage for dependents, and HSA + FSA options; For non-US employees, 100% Paid private medical coverage available at the highest tiered plan
• Access to licensed therapists and mental health resources through Spill, 100% confidential and paid by Pagoda; plus $75 monthly reimbursement for wellness
• Annual company retreats and team offsites.
• $2,000 Continued Education Reimbursement.

Hiring process

• Recruiter Call
• Hiring Manager Call
• Algorithms & Coding Interview