Contract Runtime Engineer

About The Role:

Near One engineering team is supporting development of the infrastructure of the Layer 1 Blockchain: NEAR Protocol. We focus on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize visions of the NEAR Protocol.

The core component of NEAR is a WebAssembly virtual machine that runs in a completely trustless and fully deterministic mode, as it executes contracts implemented in WebAssembly-friendly languages (e.g. Rust and Javascript) using a fast compiler. NEAR contributes a lot of effort into performance and safety optimizations of WebAssembly VMs/compilers which helps not only the NEAR protocol but the entire WebAssembly ecosystem.

We are growing our engineering team and are looking for a Contract Runtime Engineer with experience in low-level programming who is intrigued by a variety of open problems inherent to running compilers in completely trustless but high-performance settings, and who likes contributing to and collaborating with open-source communities.

You will collaborate with highly knowledgeable and skilled colleagues who are passionate about solving hard problems that can disrupt the industry.

What You’ll Be Doing:

In this role, you will be solving cutting-edge compiler and VM problems related to safe, deterministic, and high-performance compilation and execution. You will interface with many open-source projects where you might be asked to represent the NEAR organization. In the future, your work might also extend beyond WebAssembly VMs into other types of VMs that NEAR chooses to support. You’ll work on a collaborative and globally distributed team of world class experienced engineers, providing an opportunity to learn and grow your technical skill set.

What We’re Looking For:

• Knowledge and experience using Rust, C, or C++ in a production environment. We can teach you Rust if you are already a C or C++ expert.
• Experience with low-level programming (compilers, operating systems, hypervisors, etc).
• Experience designing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
• Solid foundation with Algorithms and Data Structures and their real world use cases
• Demonstrated success working on a globally distributed team
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must
• Good communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges.

We’d Love If You Have:

• Contributions to open-source software.
• Experience with Rust API design.
• Experience with virtual machines / compilers

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.