About The Company

Flashbots is looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to ensure Flashbots infrastructure is scalable, secure, and reliable. As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will support deployment and troubleshooting during critical ecosystem events, as we open-sourcing our software, or release critical products like Suave. You will also be responsible for maintaining and improving our infrastructure systems and CI/CD processes, as well as managing task prioritization and execution. 

Our Impact

Since the launch of Flashbots, we have had an immense impact on the world of cryptocurrency. The Flashbots Auction was launched in alpha in January 2021 and was quickly adopted by almost all Ethereum miners. Prior to Ethereum's Merge in 2022, Flashbots launched MEV-Boost, a temporary solution for out-of-protocol proposer-builder separation. MEV-Boost has since been adopted by over 90% of Ethereum validators and has significantly influenced the Ethereum PoS ecosystem. Now, Flashbots continues its journey with the introduction of novel privacy primitives and SUAVE.

Our Research

Flashbots Research is an independent arm of the organization that aims to become the hub of MEV research. In addition to conducting in-house analysis, Flashbots Research collaborates with external researchers at other institutions via an external grants program. Flashbots Research continues to publish seminal research on MEV, covering a wide range of topics including cross-chain MEV, EIP1559 and MEV, how ETH2 affects MEV, SGX and privacy, and more. For a full list of publications, visit writings.flashbots.net.

Why Flashbots?

• Competitive salary
• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
• Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
• Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
• Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
• Help build the future of blockchain technology
• Attractive health cover package for US employees
• Remote working - travel and work from anywhere in the world
• Paid travel - team on-sites in different parts of the world, several times a year

Job Short Description

Responsibilities

In addition to the outline above, as the Lead Architect you will:

• Partner closely with Flashbots product, research, and engineering teams to design product prototypes, diagrams, and technical explainers for Flashbots products
• Review code and other technical proposals and provide feedback to other team members
• Stay apprised of the latest technical developments in blockchain and MEV
• Evaluate, document, and educate others on the design space and implementation trade-offs for various solutions
   

Qualifications

• 8+ years of blockchain and software architectural design and implementation
• Expertise in production-grade software development using Go, Rust, Python, or TypeScript
• Advanced command of blockchain infrastructure and architectural designs and solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities in remote environment
• Experience leading and mentoring other engineers
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills
   

Nice to Have

• Designed architectural solutions across the MEV supply chain, orderflow auction solutions, privacy and cryptographic primitives, or related MEV solutions.