Sr. Blockchain Engineer, Distributed Systems

Published: 1 week ago

Job Location

Job Type

Full Time

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Relocation

Allowed

Hiring contact

Shira Stember

The Role

As a Sr. Blockchain 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

More about Snickerdoodle Labs

Founders

Jonathan Padilla
CEO • 3 years
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Atticus Francken
Chief Strategy Officer • 3 years
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