Senior Software Engineer, Low-Latency Systems

Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world.

After recently raising $225M in series A funding led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

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The Role

Monad Labs is looking for strong software engineers who enjoy solving challenging performance engineering and low-level optimizations problems.

Candidates with experience developing systems with lean memory and compute limits are an ideal match. You will be part of a small, deeply technical team, working on high-impact problems in a fast-paced environment.

Although we are building a new blockchain, previous experience with crypto is not expected.

Who you are

• Resourceful and self-motivated
• Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
• Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
• Opinionated about software architecture
• Motivated to push the limits of system performance through repeated optimization
• Interested in building high-value fault-tolerant distributed systems

What you’ve done

• Years of C++ development experience
• HFT or embedded systems development, such as writing software for packet processing, communication, codecs, robotics, etc.
• Excellent instincts for software architecture
• Knowledge of performance optimization / profiling tools
• Knowledge of proper memory management
• Knowledge of unix, shell scripting, and python
• Ideal but not required : Bachelors in technical field; 5 years’ experience

What you’ll be doing

• Optimizing a high-performance multithreaded stack-based VM, as well as ancillary functionality (disk I / O, computation metering, network)
• Identifying bottlenecks through profiling, and evaluate design choices for accelerating computation flow
• Designing and implementing architecture improvements
• Contributing to developer tooling
• Tech stack : C++, clang, LLVM, gdb, perf, unix, git

Why work with us

• Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.
• Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow.

Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto.

• The right team. You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team (bios here).
• Culture . We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs.

As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.

• Compensation . You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
• Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures.

We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.

Salary and Benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $200,000. ( This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, domain expertise, and geographic location.)

Monad Labs’ benefits for US-based full-time employees include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees);

unlimited and encouraged paid time off; monthly mental health and fitness stipend; paid parental leave; and 10 company-observed holidays.

Our team is headquartered in NoMad, Manhattan, NYC. This is for a hybrid (3 days / week in office) role.

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