Backend Jobs at Protocol Labs
There is 1 Web3 Job at Protocol Labs
| Job Position | Company | Posted | Location | Salary | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Protocol Labs | remote | $40k - $85k |
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About CryptoEconLab
CryptoEconLab at PL aspires to become a research hub for research on economic incentives, coordination games, and novel marketplaces. We aim to develop capacity to design, validate, deploy, and govern large-scale economic systems. CryptoEconLab strives to empower projects in the ecosystem through novel incentives and advance humanity’s understanding of multiagent systems and algorithmic steering of economic networks
Research at Protocol Labs
Your expertise is mostly driven by both a hunger to learn and a need to work toward solving important problems. Protocol Labs’ engineers are granted both the freedom to develop their knowledge by working on novel applications, and a responsibility to contribute those skills toward advancing the flagship projects of Protocol Labs. You’ll feel at home working with us if your knowledge and optimism enables you to name a few unusual possible approaches when you’re first presented with a problem that people often consider intractable.
As a Backend / Data Engineer at Protocol Labs, you will...
- Prototype novel applications
- Compose existing Web3 primitives into new systems and applications
- Collect, pipeline, and process on-chain and off-chain data to facilitate research and derive insights to drive business strategies and protocol governance
- Build data infrastructure to store and retrieve Pebibytes of data from Filecoin & IPFS
- Create web3 native technology stack to build APIs and services
- Champion Protocol Labs’ GRC strategy for data governance, risk management, privacy, security, quality, and retention, ensuring compliance with legal and business requirements
- Work in a fully asynchronous and remote team
You may be a fit for this role if you have....
- 3+ years experience as a software or data engineer in industry
- Strong experience and familiarity with high performance distributed systems and Web3
- Proven experience in developing robust, reusable, and maintainable code (using Rust, Go, Python, or similar programming languages)
- Ability to write understandable and performant SQL queries
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A drive to learn and master new technologies and chart new territories
Bonus Points
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Network Science, Robotics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience with building and deploying large-scale networks and systems
- Experience with building Web3 applications and blockchain technologies
- Prior entrepreneurial experience
- Prior knowledge or contributions to the IPFS, libp2p, and/or Filecoin projects
- Prior contributions to open-source projects
- Familiarity with full-stack Web3 development