As Senior Software Engineer on the core team, you'll be contributing to the life cycle of the core components of the Babylon system, from design to maintenance. Some example core components are the Babylon node, and the relayers between Babylon and other blockchains such as Bitcoin and Cosmos chains.
We're hiring an experienced and crypto-native software engineer with intimate knowledge about blockchain consensus and security. You are passionate and ambitious about blockchain and want to make the maximum impact and get rewarded. You follow best practices in software development and have high work standards. You are open, responsible, and willing to help others.
What You'll Do:
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Design, implement, and maintain the core blockchain network software that powers Babylon full nodes, relayers between Bitcoin and Cosmos, and the peripheral programs that are operated by stakeholders of the Bitcoin Staking protocol.
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Work closely with the cryptography and security to keep the network secure.
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Optimize existing systems for scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
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Collaborate with other teams at Babylon to integrate new features and technologies.
Requirements:
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Bachelor’s degree in CS, electrical engineering, or equivalent
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4+ years of experience in blockchain layer-1 development, with mainnet launch experience
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1+ years of experience with Cosmos module development
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Proficient in Golang
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Familiar with applying CI/CD pipeline
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Fluent oral and written communication in English
Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Babylon Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring secured Bitcoin staking to the world. Supported by top venture funds like Paradigm, Polychain Capital, Bullish, Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, Framework Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, OKX Ventures, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of trustless Bitcoin staking!
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What We Do
At Babylon, we envision a future where Bitcoin and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chains thrive together. Our mission is to build a Bitcoin-driven decentralized world by evolving Bitcoin into a trusted security backbone for PoS chains, delivering yields for bitcoin holders while fostering an integrated, secure, and decentralized economy.
We trace our genesis to a transformative research paper on Bitcoin security, an original work co-authored by our co-founders, David Tse and Fisher Yu, the founder of EigenLayer, Sreeram Kannan and co-authors. Their combined intellect and foresight have set the cornerstone of Babylon.
In a testament to our dedication to advancing the field, our research paper has been accepted by the highly-respected 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - a significant global platform for security discourse.
The project is led by a team of consensus protocol researchers from Stanford and experienced layer 1 engineers from around the world. Babylon’s mission is to scale Bitcoin to secure the decentralized world. To achieve this, Babylon utilizes the three primary facets of Bitcoin: Bitcoin as an asset, its reliable timestamping service, its most censorship-resistant blockspace in the world. To leverage these facets, Babylon is developing three innovative security-sharing protocols: Bitcoin Staking Protocol, Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol, and Bitcoin Data Availability Protocol. Through these pioneering protocols, Babylon envisions a more secure and decentralized future
