About The Role:

• The Protocol Node team is looking for an experienced software engineer to focus on the experience of running NEAR’s blockchain client: making the client easy to run, improving its stability and performance, optimizing the resources it consumes.
• The work done by the Node team expands over infrastructure, client code, protocol code and release engineering, since all these components impact the experience of running the NEAR client.
• You will be working with complex concurrent systems, low-level code, complicated state machines, novel algorithms and infrastructure automation.
• You will be expected to fully own various components or features and drive their implementation from beginning to end, including the design, the implementation, the maintenance, and the documentation.
• You will be surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers who will be holding you to the same standards.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team
• Own major blockchain protocol and client features
• Lead the design and implementation of Rust components end to end
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap
• Facilitate cross-functional work within the organization
• Facilitate discussions and debates, consolidating  different perspectives to drive decisions to execution
• Anticipate risks and uncertainties and plan mitigations for them.
• Directly impact the team by reducing complexity of architectures, implementations, and processes.
• Set the right tempo for you and the team to deliver large initiatives on time.
• End-to-end ownership of your work (design, implementation, documentation, maintenance)
• Performance tuning and optimizations

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the blockchain protocol
• An effective  communicator and ability to remain calm under pressure and when juggling multiple priorities
• Being comfortable with diving in multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigate through it
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures
• Excellent coding skills
• Ability to go from design to implementation fast
• Your work is done carefully with a great attention to detail
• Experience with Rust or alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is a must

We'd Love If You Have:

• Familiarity with internals of other blockchains
• Knowledge of cryptography
• Knowledge of compilers or virtual machines
• Knowledge of networks or operating systems
• Experience debugging complex concurrent systems