Platform Engineer
Dark Matter Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsGoRustScalaSolidity
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain the core platform and internal tooling that supports zkSync protocol and application development.
- Develop high-performance services and infrastructure components for both L1 and L2 systems.
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and developer workflows to improve iteration speed and reliability.
- Conduct research, prototype solutions, and produce high-quality technical documentation.
- Collaborate with Protocol, DevEx, Core Engineering, and Security teams to shape platform architecture and long-term infrastructure roadmap.
- Ensure platform components meet high standards of scalability, security, and performance.
Requirements
- 3–10 years in platform, infrastructure, systems, or protocol engineering
- Proven experience building and scaling internal platforms or high-load distributed systems
- Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure and EVM/L2 development environments
- Experience with strongly typed languages (Go, Rust, C++, Scala)
- Familiarity with smart contract development workflows (Foundry, Yul, Solidity tooling)
- Deep experience with CI/CD, observability stacks, release pipelines, and environment orchestration
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and system performance optimization
- Knowledge of cryptographic primitives, Merkle trees, or low-level protocol components is a bonus
- Fluent written and spoken English
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
GoRustC++Scalasmart contract developmentFoundryYulSolidityCI/CDsystem performance optimization
Soft skills
collaborationtechnical documentationcommunication