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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:

1. Boost Markets - Improve the storage deal flow, improve visibility for Storage Providers into their systems, add extensible data transfer, and Improve team velocity
2. 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
3. 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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