Backend / API Engineer

At Textile, we’re looking for passion, integrity, and an experimental mindset. We welcome rigorous thinkers who can move quickly, learn continuously, and thrive in a supportive and engaging workplace.

Textile's mission is to accelerate the exchange of information on the Internet. We are a small, fully remote team aligned in our vision to change the relationship between technology and data. What we are building Tableland.

Tableland is a network and SQL protocol for EVM chains like Ethereum. It is built for developers.

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• Collaborate with the team working in the frontend to understand their needs while calling validator APIs.
• Maintain up to date documentation for the validator and communicate with our external validators community to help them run go-tableland in their own infrastructure.
• Participate in Discord chats with our community to answer questions regarding using and running a validator.
• You’ll help maintain our internal cloud infrastructure that runs multiple validators with analytics and monitoring stacks.

Example areas of work:

• You’ll work mainly in the go-tableland repository, implementing protocol changes from our spec.
• You’ll also work in our custom go-sqlparser repository which implements a custom SQL language for the protocol.
• You’ll participate in our protocol spec discussions to analyze future changes in the protocol.
• You’ll research leading technologies and develop research documents and proposals for development, optionally speaking and presenting to different communities

• Previous experience in Web3
• Good knowledge of the Ethereum protocol and L2s
• A detailed understanding of validators, blockchains, the EVM, and tokenomics
• Previous experience using Ethereum node APIs
• Technical skills
• Programming in Go for at least 2 years
• Experience configuring and deploying to cloud infrastructure
• Great attention to detail on building reliable software
• Interest in Web3 protocol design
• Interest in software and infrastructure security
• General
• Excellent writing skills
• Self-directed with comfort working independently or with collaborators

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous experience building an open-source protocol
• Deep knowledge on how SQLite works
• Deep knowledge about different Ethereum scaling solutions