Distributed Systems Engineer

The role of our Protocol Engineering team is to build state-of-the-art blockchain clients (nodes).

Designing and building distributed and fault-tolerant systems
An appreciation of scalable, high availability and low latency architectures
Implementing networking layer and P2P protocols
Processing and management of large data sets with strict real-time performance requirements
Optimizing software performance
Opportunity to work with the top software engineers and research professionals to solve the toughest technical challenges
Working with the latest tools and technologies
Troubleshooting

Ability to implement efficient algorithms and design complex data structures
Excellent programming skills, C# or Rust or GO preferred but will also consider other tech stacks (e.g. Java, C++)
An understanding of good software architecture
Ability to write clean, testable and maintainable code without over-engineering
An entrepreneurial nature, willing to take ownership and run towards problems
Several years of experience in software development
Strong computer science background
A fascination with the inner working of blockchains

It is not essential but, if you have deep knowledge in one of the following areas, then we would love to talk to you:

Examples of projects the team has worked on:

Building of Ethereum client from scratch
Implementation of Snap Sync protocol that improves the speed of Ethereum node synchronization over the network
The Merge - implementation and migration from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake
Performance improvements to an internal virtual machine (EVM)
Improvements to memory management
Design and implementation of efficient and robust data stores and caching
Libp2p implementation in C#

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