Senior Rust Engineer (Miden) Full Time

Summary:

• Polygon Labs is a software development company building and developing a network of aggregated blockchains via the AggLayer, secured by Ethereum.
• The AggLayer will bring together user bases and liquidity for any connected chain, leveraging Ethereum as a settlement layer.
• Polygon Labs has contributed to the core development of several widely-adopted scaling protocols and tools for launching blockchains, including Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Miden, which is currently in development.
• Polygon Miden aims to be the most innovative and easy-to-use zkRollup for Ethereum, enabling use cases beyond what is currently possible with EVM-centric architectures.
• The core technology focuses on parallel transaction execution, account abstraction, and a zk-optimized Virtual Machine designed from the ground up.
• The role of Senior Rust Engineer will involve designing and implementing core components of the Miden rollup and contributing to R&D efforts for the rollup architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and harden the sequencer and the client (Mempool, consensus, backups).
• Create a testing infrastructure for the sequencer and the client.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to members of the team.

Requirements:

• Deep familiarity with Rust, including advanced concepts such as generics, lifetimes, memory management, concurrency, etc.
• Sound knowledge of networking primitives in Rust, asynchronous execution, and client/server architectures and trade-offs.
• Familiarity with Ethereum, rollup protocols and trade-offs, and attack vectors.
• Familiarity with advanced benchmarking and testing frameworks (prop-testing, fuzzing).
• Experience working on open-ended problems without supervision.
• Proven ability to teach and mentor less experienced team members.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with zero knowledge proof-based blockchain systems.
• Fundamentals of cryptography, e.g., hash functions and finite fields.
• Experience with open-source software.
• Experience with privacy mechanisms.

Benefits:

• Remote-first global workforce.
• Industry-leading Medical, Dental, and Vision health insurance (in certain countries medical, dental, and vision is fully covered for employees & their dependents).
• Company matching 401k with 3% match (for United States employees only).
• $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (lifetime max).
• $200 Annual Book Allowance Program.
• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement.
• Flexible Time Off.
• One company-wide wellness Friday day off per quarter.
• Company-issued laptop.
• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits.