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Overview
Join Category Labs as a Senior Researcher in Systems, focusing on databases and operating systems. Work on high-impact problems in decentralized technology with a competitive salary and benefits. Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to deliver significant improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team. We’re the team behind Monad, a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 whose public mainnet is now live. We write the core software that runs it: a parallel-execution EVM, a custom state database, and a BFT consensus client, all developed in the open.
What You Will Do
- •Designing performant algorithms and architectures related to storage or recovery, in single-node or distributed environments.
- •Researching new architectures
- •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. See our Blogs and Publications & Talks for a flavor of the problems we are solving in the real world.
- •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 (engineers and researchers make up 90% of the team).
- •Open by default: Our core software is public on GitHub. You’ll build in the open, and your work ships where the whole ecosystem can see it.
- •Culture: We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output. As an early member of our team, you’ll help 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.
Who You Are
- •PhD in Computer Science or equivalent
- •Significant research experience into databases or operating systems
- •Experience writing performant algorithms
- •Experience writing production-grade code
- •Resourceful and self-motivated
- •Collaborative
- •Adaptive; able to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
- •Curious about lower-level system details
- •Interested in building high-value, performant and distributed systems