Distributed Networking, P2P Engineer

Summary

Join Codex, a diverse team of researchers and engineers building the next generation decentralized storage engine. We are seeking an experienced P2P Networking Protocol Engineer to design, implement, and maintain state-of-the-art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions. You will coordinate testing efforts, implement new features, and collaborate with the team. The ideal candidate possesses a strong academic background, experience with low-level libp2p primitives and strongly typed languages, and a passion for open-source software. Excellent communication and debugging skills are essential. Compensation includes a flexible mix of fiat and crypto.

Requirements

• Strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
• Experience with low level libp2p primitives
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
• Experience with Open Source software
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers
• Strong networking (P2P systems) background
• Good debugging skills
• Good at explaining a complicated issue at varying levels of complexity for others to understand
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain state of the art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions
• Coordinate with the ongoing testing efforts to identify and eliminate instabilities in the existing codebase and bring it to production levels quality
• Implement and design new features as part of roadmap milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Nim programming language
• Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and other ZK-technology
• Familiarity with advanced cryptographic hashing functions

Benefits

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto