Senior Software Engineer @ Protocol Labs

Senior Software Engineer

Bedrock

Posted on 4/20/2022

INACTIVE

Locations

Remote

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

JavaScript

Linux/Unix

Rust

Blockchain

TCP/IP

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
Significant experience building applications using Go, Rust, JavaScript, or related languages
A solid understanding of distributed systems principles and applications
Experience designing and building distributed and/or p2p software systems and applications
A strong technical design ability informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties
Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices
Experience with 1 or more of the following: Smart Contracts, storage platforms, UNIX file systems, VMs (preferred)
Deep understanding of network protocols such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP
Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

Boost Markets - Improve the storage deal flow, improve visibility for Storage Providers into their systems, add extensible data transfer, and Improve team velocity
Network Indexer Nodes - Store the Index provides a content routing sub-system to identify which providers in the interplanetary network are able to provide what content
Data Transfer Workstream - Improve performance and reliability of data transfer stack in storage and retrieval deals for Estuary
Build the next generation of peer-to-peer software, working on open source projects such as IPFS, Filecoin, Drand, and libp2p
Contribute to steering and maintenance of the implementations of IPFS, Filecoin, Drand, libp2p and similar open source projects
Create or maintain software libraries and programs depended on by other systems and applications
Contribute to protocol design and specification efforts
Participate in the design and implementation of performant and resilient distributed applications
Develop solutions to hard problems in low-trust distributed systems
Integrate research results and demonstrations into working, scalable programs and systems
Work alongside a cross-functional team including engineering, design, community, product, and business
Engage and educate the community, from users to contributors
Lead and develop more junior engineers, and provide guidance and review for open source contributors around the world

Desired Qualifications

Experience leading open source projects, and/or guiding their communities
Security engineering and/or cryptography principles and practices
Large-scale systems (especially networking, performance, storage, or reliability engineering)
Experience building with decentralized building blocks such as DHTs, consensus protocols, smart contracts, blockchain, p2p networking, etc

About Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates, and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet — humanity’s most important technology — as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (web3, cryptography, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

Bedrock’s mission is to enable the growth of the Filecoin network via highly reliable storage, retrieval, and by bridging the gap to making Filecoin the goto, easy to integrate persistence layer for IPFS.

Current Projects Include:

Boost Markets - Improve the storage deal flow, improve visibility for Storage Providers into their systems, add extensible data transfer, and Improve team velocity
Network Indexer Nodes - Store the Index provides a content routing sub-system to identify which providers in the interplanetary network are able to provide what content
Data Transfer Workstream - Improve performance and reliability of data transfer stack in storage and retrieval deals for Estuary

As Senior Software Engineer at Protocol Labs, you will...

Build the next generation of peer-to-peer software, working on open source projects such as IPFS, Filecoin, Drand, and libp2p
Contribute to steering and maintenance of the implementations of IPFS, Filecoin, Drand, libp2p and similar open source projects
Create or maintain software libraries and programs depended on by other systems and applications
Contribute to protocol design and specification efforts
Participate in the design and implementation of performant and resilient distributed applications
Develop solutions to hard problems in low-trust distributed systems
Integrate research results and demonstrations into working, scalable programs and systems
Work alongside a cross-functional team including engineering, design, community, product, and business
Engage and educate the community, from users to contributors
Lead and develop more junior engineers, and provide guidance and review for open source contributors around the world

You may be a fit for this role if you have…

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
Significant experience building applications using Go, Rust, JavaScript, or related languages
A solid understanding of distributed systems principles and applications
Experience designing and building distributed and/or p2p software systems and applications.
A strong technical design ability informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties
Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices
Experience with 1 or more of the following: Smart Contracts, storage platforms, UNIX file systems, VMs (preferred)
Deep understanding of network protocols such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP
Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Points if you have

Experience leading open source projects, and/or guiding their communities
Security engineering and/or cryptography principles and practices
Large-scale systems (especially networking, performance, storage, or reliability engineering)
Experience building with decentralized building blocks such as DHTs, consensus protocols, smart contracts, blockchain, p2p networking, etc.

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What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?

Protocol Labs’ mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

If you’re passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you.

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51-200 employees

Website

Open-source R&D lab with Web3 focus

Company Overview

Protocol Labs aims to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. The company is open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory, who's projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

Benefits

Parental leave
Contributions to your retirement
Competitive pay and unlimited time off
For U.S.-based employees: platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

Company Core Values

We are open source to the core: Open-source technology is at the core of all our projects and at the center of our philosophy.
We are a global, remote workforce: Protocol Labs is a distributed company with no central office, working from home all over the world.
We champion autonomy: We empower people to lead and take ownership of interesting, challenging problems.
We welcome diverse ways of thinking: This is a team of talented, curious people of diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives.
We are a startup lab:We mix fast-paced, growth-oriented startup culture, with deeply analytical, data driven research thinking.