This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the advancement of our block-building and MEV-related systems.

• Collaborate across the Ethereum ecosystem, including Layer 2 solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in writing high-performance Rust and enthusiastic about optimizing latency in critical paths (profiling, flamegraphs, allocator choices, async/runtime tuning, lock contention, cache locality, and zero-copy where necessary).

• Possess extensive knowledge of the EVM, including transaction execution mechanics (gas accounting, calldata/memory/storage semantics), state access patterns, and the real-world implications of opcodes and precompiles.

• Have a comprehensive understanding of the MEV ecosystem, including proposer/builder separation, relays, private order flow, builder strategies, and the incentives influencing behavior in production networks.

• Have practical experience with MEV searching or have developed systems related to MEV.

• Familiar with the transaction supply chain, including mempool dynamics, propagation/latency effects, private RPCs, order flow providers, and builders/relays.

• Have a strong passion for Ethereum, proof-of-stake blockchains, and decentralized systems.