Overview
Gelato is the Onchain Cloud Platform powering the most ambitious teams in crypto building the next generation of web3 applications. Whether you're launching a blockchain, building smart wallets, or enabling gasless transactions, Gelato provides tools to create seamless onchain experiences. The onchain future is being built with Gelato.
What we offer:
* Join one of the most technically robust teams in the crypto space, operating in a fully remote environment with our headquarters in Zug, Switzerland
* Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of blockchain by contributing to Gelato's Rollup-As-A-Service Platform, trusted by leading projects like Lisk and Astar Network
* Dive into cutting-edge Web3 technologies with exposure to Gelato's premier Middleware Services stack, including Gelato Web3 Functions and Gelato Relay
* Earn and participate with the GEL Token package, granting you a stake in the network and a voice in the project’s strategic direction
* Be backed by world-class investors including Dragonfly, IOSG, Galaxy Digital, ParaFi, Gnosis, and industry leaders, securing your position at the forefront of Web3
Responsibilities
* Master diverse Ethereum Rollup technologies including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and more, preparing for deployment, operation, debugging, and enhancement
* Architect a high-impact decentralized network, focusing on scalability to manage a sequencer and RPC node infrastructure handling millions of transactions and billions of RPC requests daily
* Deepen expertise in Zero Knowledge proofs with ZK-EVM stacks to advance privacy and scalability in blockchain
* Own your code with a proactive DevOps approach, ensuring robust deployment and real-time monitoring in collaboration with the Infrastructure team
* Innovate within Rollup ecosystems, designing features like Decentralized Sequencing, Eigenlayer restaking, peer-to-peer messaging, threshold signatures, and trust-minimized off-chain computation
* Enhance network security and resilience by identifying attack vectors and failure points, and creating reproducible testing environments
* Develop and refine recovery protocols for core node software to ensure robustness and rapid response to unforeseen events
* Build and maintain distributed systems for high reliability across diverse blockchain environments
Requirements
* High autonomy from research through deployment, monitoring, and patching
* Strong written and verbal English communication
* Comfort with both DevOps and Software Engineering
* 3 years experience with DevOps (Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GCP/AWS, Docker)
* 2 years experience with Golang/Rust/C++ (Go preferred)
* Extensive experience shipping production-grade code handling thousands of user interactions or transactions
* Deep understanding of the EVM and/or other VMs and how external tooling integrates with it
* Strong experience with high-throughput database systems
* Experience maintaining scalable microservices systems
* Experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration
* Strong interest in Web3/crypto industry
* Experience using crypto applications (e.g. Uniswap, Aave, etc.)
Not essential, but big bonus points
* Knowledge about Ethereum client architecture
* Knowledge of Ethereum EVM execution client geth
* Knowledge of Ethereum rollup stacks and clients (OP, Arbitrum) and their trade-offs
* 1 year experience with Solidity
* Experience with p2p network technologies such as libp2p
Technologies we use and teach
* GETH and its Rollup forks
* Golang/Rust
* Node.js/TypeScript
* libp2p
* Pub/Sub
* Redis
* GCP (less AWS)
* Ethers.js / Viem
* Subgraphs
Benefits
* Fully remote team with members in Zug, Paris, New York, London, Singapore, and other locations; CET hours overlap encouraged for collaboration
* Competitive package with a generous token package and participation in the Gelato DAO
* Opportunity to shape the future of web3 by working with major projects that use Gelato
* World-class investors backing the team
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting
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