Distributed Systems Engineer

Mav Farm is a technology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California with a remote and distributed team, that designs and develops enterprise and consumer media, commerce, and financial software and services. We provide tools for artists, creators, app developers, and businesses to collaborate with one another to captivate audiences and human-machines in creative, engaging, and unobtrusive ways - that is, sans advertising. These creators are building media companies, brands and retail companies, tech companies, and all of the above together with Mav Farm. Mav Farm considers itself part e-commerce platform, part entertainment app, part business tool, part financial solution, and part social network, meeting multifaceted creator and audience needs through distinct yet synergistic features.

Mav Farm was founded with the goal of a fully decentralized peer-to-peer art, media and trade network - that is, to provide artists, creators, organizations and businesses access to and complete control of the universal decentralized distribution of their art, media and commerce.

There are over 600k users watching and shopping from over 500 of their favorite creators, cultural influencers, and brands. Not only is Mav Farm helping creators and businesses earn more for their efforts, but is also helping their audiences find new people, brands, and stories to engage with in unique and uncompromising ways.

Mav Farm is looking for a passionate and experienced distributed systems engineer to help develop, build and deploy a soon-to-be launched blockchain for a decentralized app and cryptocurrency. This role will work with our back-end engineers and distributed systems experts to implement a new blockchain architecture suitable for Mav Farm, by decreasing transaction time and cost for the Mav Farm ecosystem. This role is ideal for engineers who are experts in peer-to-peer protocol development, familiar with the bitcoin blockchain, and keen to build a clean-slate system from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Research, strategize and educate on methodology and best practices for blockchain design, implementation, and deployment
• Collaborate with a team and open source community to build and implement a blockchain for Mav Farm
• Instate monitoring systems for the blockchain’s health
• Help design, implement, and monitor one or more testnets
• Implement rigorous and thorough testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure
• Deliver upon goals for blockchain architecture and development for Mav Farm
• Provide key features to be used across the Mav Farm ecosystem including: decreased transaction times and costs, programmable payment and name management systems, hybrid on-chain/off-chain programming models, protocols for enacting soft forks, deployment and monitor one or more blockchain testnets
• Design and implementation of supporting tools and utilities, such as: a CLI client for the blockchain, a Web client for the blockchain, monitoring utilities, debugging utilities, facilities for checking and analyzing transactions, tools for exploring the blockchain

Qualifications

• You have worked with a founding team building a blockchain, are an expert in decentralized solutions, and are passionate about our mission of building a new decentralized internet.
• Expert knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed system design and implementation, including familiarity with state-of-the-art academic literature on the subject and practical knowledge on engineering successful peer-to-peer systems.
• Experience in the low-level implementation and protocol details of a widely-deployed public blockchain
• Strong Linux engineering background required
• Ability to build and maintain highly available infrastructure
• Competency in monitoring and quick response time in the event of an emergency
• Strong background in security-oriented system design, with a focus on applied cryptography
• Must be able to identify and defend against plausible protocol-level and network-level attacks on the system.
• Experience deploying Bitcoin infrastructure, like UTXO providers and block explorers
• Strong problem solving skills, ability to think fast and thoroughly
• Excellent communication

Our employees, who have named themselves Mavericks and Farmers, are everything. Because of our ability to attract the most talented, intelligent, and creative technologists, scientists, artists, designers and business people across the world, Mav Farm naturally remains highly "unmanageable." In this unmanaged chaos, we have been delighted by the work that has been produced by these Mavericks and Farmers.

We have been lucky to recruit many creative, principled and hard working leaders and we hope to recruit many more in the future. We are a distributed collective of pioneers, a farm of mavericks, seeking both individual freedom and community. Mav Farm emphasizes creative exploration above everything else, which has helped us provide artists, creators, and businesses access to complete control over the universal distribution of their art, goods, and services.

Join us on our mission to free the universes' art!

Learn more about our about our hiring/interview process and a teaser about what it's like working at Mav Farm here.