Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Company Name: Stealth Startup
Location: Canada

About

Our mandate is to research, develop, and promote open, decentralized, network technologies, that provide greater sovereignty, security, and sustainability to the world’s communities.

Job Description:

Are you an experienced software engineer? Do you have a passion for distributed systems? Are you seeking to build software that has a positive impact on the world? We’d like to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement improvements to the software and protocols.
• Improve the correctness, code-quality, and performance of the software.
• Contribute clean, well tested, and well documented code.
• Review issues and pull requests and provide valuable feedback to contributors.
• Mentor other engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
• Guard the quality of the software from technical debt, missing tests or documentation, and feature creep.
• Nurture a safe and enjoyable open source experience for contributors.

Preferred skills

• At least 5 years developing, releasing, and maintaining production software.
• Significant experience writing Golang and/or Rust, or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
• Experience with highly concurrent networking software.
• A deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Knowledge of fault tolerant consensus protocols like PBFT, Raft, etc.
• Knowledge of P2P networking protocols like BitTorrent, Kademlia, etc.
• The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, experience working with distributed teams, and enjoys working with and mentoring others.

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  Project ManagementInformation Technology

• Industries

  Internet