This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an essential part of Ethereum infrastructure, which enables >75% of transactions in Ethereum's ecosystem to settle onchain. Our client, a non-profit organization originally initiated by a pioneering entity, sits at the core of the orderflow ecosystem to maintain software and market mechanisms around Proposer-Builder Separation.

Role

You'll be step by step onboarded into a high responsibility role for mev-boost and support the whole ecosystem around it. This means you'll get in-depth insights into the orderflow market structure and infra of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) on Ethereum.

Over time you'll own and upgrade essential infrastructure and be deeply involved in shipping future Ethereum upgrades (hardforks).

What you’ll do

• Develop ownership of mev-boost and surrounding infrastructure
• Ensure security and resilience of the orderflow pipeline
• Consistently improve dev workflows incl. CI automation and advancing unit and e2e tests
• Navigate upgrades around Ethereum hardforks starting from early devnets
• Collaborate closely with Execution Layer and Consensus Layer client teams Follow the Ethereum MEV/PBS ecosystem research and development
• Codebases you'll be involved with:
  • mev-boost, mev-boost-relay, go-boost-utils
  • rbuilder, builders-specs, relay-specs
  • go-eth2-client, go-builder-client

Requirements

Must have

• Strong proficiency with Go (Golang) and performance-optimized code
• Networking experience: TCP/IP, RPC, libp2p
• Extensive database knowledge: Redis, SQL and NoSQL
• Security-first mindset and interest in adversarial-resistant systems
• In-depth testing, CI and DevOps experience
• Passion for distributed systems and open source ethos

Great to have