Web3 Jobs in San Jose, California, United States

As a Sr. Software Engineer, Distributed Systems on our team, you will:

• 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, product, strategy and operations
• 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 ideally 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
• Leadership experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems in production
• Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices
• Experience with 1 or more of the following: Smart Contracts, storage platforms, UNIX file systems, VMs (preferred)
• 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.

What you can expect from us:

• Very competitive compensation packages
• Generous wellness benefits and vacation policy
• Ample equipment/workspace budget
• Fun and engaging off sites
• Based in Silicon Valley, New York, or Remote