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Distributed Networking / Protocol Engineer

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

PhD-level or equivalent, Experience with low level languages, Strong networking background, Open Source software experience.

Key responsabilities:

Design and maintain p2p protocols
Collaborate in testing and debugging efforts
Implement new features

Status SME https://status.im/

51 - 200 Employees

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Job description

Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.

About Codex

We’re a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. We’re building the next generation storage engine that attempts to “untie the knot” of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward.

We’re looking for an experienced P2P Networking Protocol Engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems.

https://codex.storage/

Key responsibilities

Design, implement and maintain state of the art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions
Coordinate with the ongoing testing efforts to identify and eliminate instabilities in the existing codebase and bring it to production levels quality
Implement and design new features as part of roadmap milestones

You ideally will have

Strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
Experience with low level libp2p primitives
Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
Experience with Open Source software
Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers
Strong networking (P2P systems) background
Good debugging skills
Good at explaining a complicated issue at varying levels of complexity for others to understand
A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Bonus points if

Familiarity with the Nim programming language
Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and other ZK-technology
Familiarity with advanced cryptographic hashing functions

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter]

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