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Protocol Engineer (Distributed systems|Blockchain|Smart Contracts)

Protocol Engineer (Distributed systems|Blockchain|Smart Contracts)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote, Worldwide

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Research and develop open protocols for secure messaging.
• Use a layered protocol approach that is mindful and explicit about what it requires, what it provides, under what threat models, and with what trade-offs.
• Combine cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable distributed and fault-tolerant system.
• Write and maintain Nim code.
• Research and design core functionality.
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
• Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
• Build incentivized, distributed systems.
• Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization. 
• Strong academic or engineering background.
• Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
• Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
• Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.

• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
• In in the Ethereum community.
• Experience with cryptography such as OTR, X3DH, Noise protocol.
• Experience with Nim. 
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p.

Benefits

Perks & benefits!

• Work with some of the most passionate & dedicated minds in the Ethereum space.

• We ask that you’re willing to be paid in a combination of fiat and cryptocurrency.
• We’ll reward you with a competitive base salary.
• We’ll also reward you with SNT (Status Network Tokens) to give you a real stake in the success of the organisation.
• A generous budget (€2000 Euros) to choose whatever laptop you prefer.
• We provide a small allowance (up to €250 Euros per month) for a co-working space.

• Work from wherever you choose. Our contributors are a varied bunch - some work from home, some from a coworking space, some from a local cafe, others are nomads.
• We operate an open vacation policy, meaning there are no hard limits or strict rules around how much holiday you take and how you schedule it.
• We want our contributors to be healthy and take the time they need to relax and enjoy quality disconnected time away from work.
• We offer all contributors a Headspace subscription.

• Each team has a travel budget to attend conferences & team meetups of their choice.
• Once per year the whole organisation gets together to connect (so far we’ve visited Bangkok and Prague).

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