Senior Rust Engineer

About Polybase

Polybase is a decentralized privacy preserving database (essentially a zk-rollup, with native indexing and storage).

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Your traits

• Expert level Rust, our tech test is very hard to pass (you better be good with threads and lifetimes 😅)
  • Seriously, only apply if you’re top 1%
  • And want to work with people who are also top 1%
• You love solving really hard problems and want to work on something meaningful and challenging
• You work best with autonomy, you want to be left alone to get on with it (we have only one meeting a week)
• You want be an active part of decision making and be given time to work on your ideas
• You want to get in early with a start up to convert your hard work into maximum equity / upside
• You have an open source project you’re working on, or contributing to one
• You are proactive and have read the Polybase whitepaper

Bonus

• Experience with compilers
• Experience building (not using) distributed systems
• Mathematical or cryptography background
• Understanding of low level computer science primitives (vm, heap, stack, memory allocation, etc)
• Experience optimising performance

The role

We're rebuilding the database from the ground up. Things you could be working on:

• Compiling from our native language Polylang to Miden VM (a zk vm language)
• Consensus protocol (we have our own implementation)
• Merkle Tree rollup
• Indexers (we use rocks-db under the hood)
• P2P communication using libp2p
• Optimizing performance of archictecture

Location

Remote (worldwide, any timezone). Europe and US East Coast timezones preferred.