Operator
$130k - $275k
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Who we are
Operator Protocol is an open and decentralized protocol for e-commerce. Anyone can participate as a buyer or seller, and the network will be governed by the marketplace participants. Instead of a giant, monopolistic rent-seeker owning the customer and taking a large toll on every transaction, Operator Protocol is low fee and creates a viable alternative for sellers to diversify off Amazon and other centralized marketplaces.
We’re founded by an all-star team that have collectively founded and led teams at high-growth startups such as Twitch, Reddit, Notion, Scribd, and more. Co-Founders include Arjun Bhargava, Justin Kan, Robin Chan, Jamie Quint, and Tikhon Bernstam.
Key Responsibilities
- Be a generalist engineer and work on a diverse set of problems from client libraries that talk to different services to database sharding
- Assume ownership of features end to end through development, testing and release
- Promote sound engineering practices and champion best practices for testing, tooling and incident response
Skills and Experience
- Must have 2+ years of experience working with production systems
- Extensive experience with a modern programming language (Javascript, Python preferred), shell scripting and strong Linux fundamentals
- Solid conceptual understanding of full stack software development including system architecture, web serving infrastructure, and database design
- Great interpersonal and communication skills and comfort working within a small team
Things you'll work on
- Writing blockchain smart contracts using Rust (Solana), Solidity (ETH), and other languages and tools
- Building a decentralized and distributed file system capable of automatic failover and replication
- Building infrastructure agnostic, self upgrading services that will be shipped to external parties hosted in every way imaginable
- Securing Operator with encryption and cryptography as well as identifying and fixing possible attack vectors
Bonus Points
- Experience working at a startup
- Experience with Blockchain and/or Distributed systems