Networking Engineer

Summary

Join our movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. We're seeking a skilled P2P Networking Protocol Engineer to work on implementing and refining P2P networking protocols, advancing the nim-libp2p implementation, and researching innovative solutions.

Requirements

• A passion for decentralization, p2p and privacy-preserving technology
• Strong engineering background
• Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C++/Go/Rust/Nim or Java/C#)
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically
• Experience implementing with core networking protocols such as Websockets and/or Quic
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Responsibilities

• Implementing P2P networking protocols
• Further architecture and development of the nim-libp2p implementation
• Implement libp2p protocols according to existing specifications
• Research and development of new p2p protocols and primitives
• Working across teams to help with networking specific needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working remotely
• Experience working for an open source organization
• Previous experience with libp2p - preferably as a direct contributor to the codebase or specifications
• Or, experience with other off-the-shelf networking stacks such as devp2p
• Experience with the Nim language