Distributed Systems Engineer

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

 
R&D working culture
 
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

Skills:

 
Ability to implement efficient algorithms and design complex data structures
 
Excellent programming skills, C# or GO preferred but will also consider other tech stacks (e.g. Java, Rust, 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 experience in software development
 
Strong computer science background
 
A fascination by 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:

 
Distributed networks (P2P)
 
Performance and memory optimisations
 
Blockchain / EVM / TransactionPool / JSON RPC
 
Complex data structures for example; Patricia\Merkle/Verkle tries
 
NoSQL Key Values databases for example; RocksDB
 
Cryptography

Examples of projects the team has worked on:

 
Building an implementation of the Nethermind 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 internal virtual machine (EVM)
 
Improvements to memory management
 
Design and implementation of efficient and robust data stores and caching
 
Libp2p implementation in C#

Perks and benefits:

 
Fully remote
 
Flexible working hours
 
Plus equity