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What are the role responsibilities?
- Core part of the protocol team, developing smart contracts on Ethereum with emphasis on security, protocol design, and long term decentralization
- Lead discussions around protocol technical challenges and be able to make technical tradeoffs between competing performance and protocol requirements
- Contribute to Optimism's public presence as a development team contributing to Ethereum (e.g., tech talks, etc)
What skills do you bring?
- 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role
- Significant experience with Solidity required
- Knowledge of the EVM and its functionality required
- Experience in the Ethereum industry / community with awareness about the EIP process and way the protocol develops is strongly preferred
- Knowledge of blockchain and cryptographic fundamentals preferred (e.g., proof of work, byzantine fault tolerance, gas economics)
- Foundational understanding of Computer Science and a strong grasp on fundamentals, both in theory and in practice
Optimism focuses on Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, and Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at https://optimism.io or find them on Twitter.
What is EVM?
EVM stands for Ethereum Virtual Machine, and it is the runtime environment for smart contracts in the Ethereum network
It is a virtual machine that executes code written in the Solidity programming language, which is the language used for writing smart contracts on the Ethereum platform
The EVM is a sandboxed environment, which means that code executed within the EVM is isolated from the rest of the network and cannot interact with it directly
This is important for security reasons, as it prevents malicious code from affecting the rest of the network
When a smart contract is deployed to the Ethereum network, it is compiled into bytecode that can be executed by the EVM
Each node on the network maintains a copy of the EVM, which allows them to execute smart contract code and validate transactions
When a transaction is submitted to the network, the EVM processes it by executing the corresponding smart contract code
The EVM processes the transaction by reading the bytecode, interpreting it, and executing it step by step
The EVM then returns the result of the transaction to the sender, which can include changes to the state of the contract or the network as a whole
The EVM is designed to be Turing-complete, which means that it is capable of performing any computation that can be performed by a computer
This allows for complex smart contracts to be executed on the Ethereum network, including those with conditional logic, loops, and other advanced programming constructs
The EVM is a key component of the Ethereum network, as it allows for the execution of smart contracts in a secure and isolated environment
It is a crucial part of the blockchain infrastructure that enables decentralized applications to be built and run on the Ethereum platform.