Systems Engineer
About this role
Job title: Systems Engineer
About the Role LayerZero is seeking a Systems Engineer to build the foundational systems powering our execution and infrastructure layers (including Zero). This is a low-level, performance-critical role focused on runtime architecture, concurrency, and scalable execution.
What You'll Do
- Design and build robust, high-performance systems for distributed execution with strict correctness and performance requirements.
- Architect high-performance systems and leverage AI to implement them in Rust.
- Build and optimize core runtime, networking, or state management components.
- Profile and improve performance at both low-level (CPU, memory) and cluster-scale (network, scheduling).
- Debug race conditions, deadlocks, and production performance issues.
- Contribute to architectural decisions around scheduling, synchronization, and system scalability.
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